Hi James, "Majority" is a little contested (it depends whether you count all the hybrid titles, and that's a different digression), but the fact that a lot of journals do not charge APCs is fairly well understood. Discounting the complicated issue of hybrids, Walt Crawford found last year that 74% of DOAJ listed journals were free, but they published only 43% of the papers overall. http://citesandinsights.info/civ15i9.pdf
Basically, the OA journals make a classic long-tail. The megajournals at one end (PLOS, Scientific Reports, etc) all charge. They publish a *lot*. Many of the middling journals charge. Then the majority of journals are the ones that publish a handful of papers a year, and these are the ones which are most likely to have no publication charges. They are more common in humanities/social science fields and often tend to be lower-profile, niche, or regional. So, the majority of journals do not levy a charge; the majority of journals only publish a minority of papers; the majority of papers involve a charge; many individuals will never notice a non-charging journal. Andrew. On 8 May 2016 at 22:56, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > @ Andrew per "The majority of OA journals do not charge publication fees" > Which ones are you thinking of? > > The entire PLOS family charges, so does JMIR. Not sure if I have come > across one that has no attached fees. Some will waive fees in > specific circumstances but that is very different than no fees generally. > > Best > James > > On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 8 May 2016 at 21:51, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Yes there are more than 10,000 open access journals. Ours are different >> in >> > that we do not charge the authors fees for publication. I am not sure of >> > another OA journal like this. >> >> The majority of OA journals do not charge publication fees to authors. >> (They only represent a minority of articles published - they tend to >> include the smaller ones). >> >> I would agree that there is no shortage of journals in the world. >> >> -- >> - Andrew Gray >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
