Slides from the SOAP Symposium - The Landscape of Open Access Publishing Today

1. The SOAP Symposium – I
The Landscape of
Open Access Publishing Today
Suenje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Bettina Goerner, Robert Darby, Jenni Hyppoelae,
Peter Igo-Kemenes, Deborah Kahn, Simon Lambert, Anja Lengenfelder,
Chris Leonard, Salvatore Mele, Malgorzata Nowicka, Panayiota Polydoratou,
David Ross, Sergio Ruiz-Perez, Ralf Schimmer, Mark Swaisland and Wim van der Stelt
BMC, CERN, MPDL, SAGE, Springer and STFC
Presented by
Ralf Schimmer, MPDL
SOAP Symposium, Berlin, 13 January 2011
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2. Our approach
• Assess the supply of OA publishing outlets
• Start from the DOAJ (07/2009)
• Collect additional information (09/2009-01/2010)
– SCOPUS, ISI-JCR, EZB, SCImago, ask friends and colleagues
– Article information as of 2007/2008
– Trawl through thousands of web pages
• Answer key questions
– How many articles, journals, publishers?
– In which discipline, with which license?
– Where does the money come from?
– …
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3. How many?
a) Fully Open Access
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• English language journals only (4,032 à 2,838)
• 90% of publishers <100 articles/year and 1/3 of total
• 10% of publishers publish 2/3 of the total
b) Hybrid: 22% of journals, 2% of articles within hybrids
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4. How many?
About 8-10% of articles/year
are published
in fully and hybrid
OA journals
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5. The 14 “large” publishers
>1000 articles or >50 journals
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6. Which areas?
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7. Which areas?
2/3 of journals in STM - 1/3 in SSH 3/4 of articles in STM - 1/4 in SSH
“large publishers” almost exclusively STM
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8. Dynamics in the field:
Starting new OA journals
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9. Licensing practices
• 1/2 of “Large” publishers use Creative Commons
• 82% cc-by (attribution)
• 18% cc-by-nc (attribution non-commercial)
• 72% of journals, 71% of articles
• “Other” publishers
• 73% have license information on their web pages
• 21% use some CC version
• 10% state “authors retains copyright”
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10. Presence of income sources
NB – No information on income amount
APC Subscription
Journals with that income source
Membership
Advertisement
Sponsorship
Hard copies
Page charges
Re-prints
Conference fee
Services
Large publishers Other publishers
Ralf Schimmer | MPS SOAP Symposium 10

11. Impact indicators
• Of our 2,838 OA journals, 313 (11%) are referenced
in ISI-JCR (2008), while 1,176 (41%) can be found
in Scopus (2009)
• No difference between the large and other
publishers in being listed in ISI-JCR
• But distinct relationship between impact factor and
subject domain; only 19 SSH journals with less than
500 articles per year appear in ISI-JCR
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12. Distribution of IF across journals in
selected subject areas
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13. Summary
• OA publishing is a mature field with similar patterns
and quality indicators as non-OA publishing
• Stronger presence of OA publishing in STM fields
• Large publishers are more likely to rely on APC
• Both large and smaller publishers are equally likely
to have journals with an impact factor
• Large publishers mostly use a version of Creative
Commons licensing while several smaller publishers
request the transfer of copyright to the publisher
Ralf Schimmer | MPS SOAP Symposium 13

14. Thank you!
Project team: info@project-soap.eu
Presenter: schimmer@mpdl.mpg.de
Project co-ordinator: Salvatore.Mele@cern.ch
Website: http://soap-fp7.eu
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