Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-26 Thread Heather Morrison
Thanks Richard. I see that the FWF makes funding available for open access article processing charges and targets particular publishers that use the APC method. Details here: https://m.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/peer-reviewed-publications/ This is a tautological argument:

Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-26 Thread Richard Poynder
Hi Marc, Thanks for providing these figures. Maybe we could consider them alongside some figures produced by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) here: http://beta.briefideas.org/ideas/f2e9ebaa34cd5655203c7de332618061. I quote: *Problem:* There is an ongoing debate on the share of OAJ and OAA

Re: [GOAL] North, South, and Open Access: The view from Egypt with Mahmoud Khalifa

2018-04-26 Thread Marc Couture
Peter Murray-Rust wrote : > I suspect that the "most journals have no APCs " are in the long tail of the distribution. If you correlate volume of articles against APC you will resolve this. > To get a (much) more detailed description of the OA world, I use the works of Walt Crawford, who did

[GOAL] [EIFL-all] EIFL Newsletter March - April 2018

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