Caroline Porter and David Ross speaking at the Online Information #Online11 exhibition in London, December 2011

1. Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences David Ross, Publisher, STM Caroline Porter, Publisher, HSS

16. Top Countries Submitting United States 188 30% India 49 8% Iran, Islamic Republic of 27 4% Canada 23 4% Pakistan 16 3% United Kingdom 13 2% Nigeria 11 2% Portugal 10 2%

17. Top Subjects Submitted Education 94 Psychology 78 Management 54 Sociology 52 Political Science 46 Communication 43 Economics 25 Humanities 24

18. Decision Statistics Decision # of Manuscripts % of Total Accept 10 6.8% Accept Pending Minor Revision 40 27.4% Immediate Reject 20 13.8% Major Revision 36 24.7% Reject 40 27.4%

19. 1The "Current issue TOC" count is not summed into the monthly total since that count is also included in the "All TOCs" count. 2The Robot/Crawler counts are excluded from the Total counts. Produced: August 5, 2011 06:36 SAGE Open YTD Usage Summary Access Events to May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Total YTD Home Page 6,891 4,624 4,129 16,429 11,854 17,436 61,363 Current issue TOC 0 0 0 33 76 123 232 All TOCs 0 0 0 128 350 520 998 Searches 4,234 1,108 642 1,780 2,279 3,442 13,485 Abstracts 22,771 6,048 4,255 11,812 7,334 9,756 61,976 Full-text HTML 2,431 1,631 1,166 3,446 2,668 3,821 15,163 PDFs 10,516 1,644 1,315 3,106 2,405 3,273 22,259 Data Supplements 0 0 250 224 318 258 1,050 Powerpoint 36 83 47 72 38 86 362 Total 1 46,879 15,138 11,804 36,997 27,246 38,592 176,656 Crawler/Robot 2 919 1,420 1,729 2,476 1,196 1,601 9,341