Science publishing: OA, commercial sales and alternative business models
•
0 likes•20 views
This document discusses alternative business models for academic journals as subscription revenue declines. It suggests journals can increase revenue through spin-off products like books, cascading rejected articles to related journals, obtaining subsidies from sponsors, and offering services to authors and readers. While open access works well for large science and medical journals, it is more challenging for smaller humanities and social science publications due to less funding and specialized topics. The document analyzes how open access journal finances vary based on submission volumes and acceptance rates.
Recommended
More Related Content
Similar to Science publishing: OA, commercial sales and alternative business models
Similar to Science publishing: OA, commercial sales and alternative business models (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Science publishing: OA, commercial sales and alternative business models
- 1. image copyrights Moyan Brenn https://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/6365101775 CC-BY Amsterdam University Press Max Haring m.haring@aup.nl Sales: alternative business models for journals
- 2. Outline Why alternative business models? – Impossible OA? – Serials crisis How to increase journal revenue? – Spin-off products – Cascading strategies – Subsidy and sponsoring – Services 2https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/100266 03395/ CC-BY NASA/Goddard/Bill Hrybyk
- 3. Can you name successful OA Journals? What do they have in common? 3
- 4. 4 Open Access journal challenges
- 5. Impossible OA? 5 Some OA journals work very well: Others face more challenges: In general, Open Access works well for: - Large journals - Broad scope and disciplines - Low rejection rate - Well-funded, high pressure to publish
- 6. Impossible OA? 6 In some disciplines OA works very well - Science - Medicine - Technology In other disciplines less so: - Social Science - Humanities - Arts “Monitoring the transition to open access” 2017 report Universities UK.
- 7. OA Journal finances – quick example 7 Journal finances: Journal fixed costs (platform): € 10.000 Editorial costs per submission: € 100 Production costs per article: € 500 APC: € 1.000 100 submissions, 50 published (50% rejection rate) Income: € 50.000 Costs: €10.000+(50x €500)+(100x €100) € 45.000 100 submissions, 25 published (75% rejection rate) Income: € 25.000 Costs: €10.000+(25x €500)+(100x €100) € 32.500 25 submissions, 20 published (20% rejection rate) Income: € 20.000 Costs: €10.000+(20x €500)+(25x €100) € 22.500
- 8. Open Access in HSS 8 Why OA is difficult in HSS: - Less funding - Small, specialized journals - Less articles per author per year - Less focus on quick data publishing - Journal editors actively acquire submissions - Less external funding = less mandates - More university presses and societies How to make OA journals work in HSS? - (Green Open Access) - Alternative business models (without APC) https://www.careerguide.com/blog/various-type-of-social-sciences-and- humanities-offered-in-canada-ug-level
- 9. 9 Subscription revenue also under pressure
- 11. Subscription revenue 11 Subscription revenue is under pressure - Serials Crisis - More research output - Declining budgets - Money is spent elsewhere (like OA) - Growth only by market share All publishers must grow revenue! - Inflation - Investment in new technology - Shareholders, investors, owners CC-BY Vmenkov Vitoria-University-Library-food-science-journals- 4490.jpg
- 13. 1. Spin-off products 13 Books - Academic book series - Reference works - Educational books - Popular books Courses - Society members - Medical education Other journals Royal Statistical Society … and 15 more!
- 14. 2. Cascading strategy 14 100 submissions Accepted and published 25 75 Rejected Bubble s The journal for underwater archaeology Publish elsewhere 5025 Bubble Report s Underwate r Science Would you like to transfer your submission? 25 25 Accepted and published Rejected
- 15. 3. Subsidy and Sponsoring 15 Subsidy - Society members - University, faculty, funders - Editorial board Sponsoring & advertising - Conference supplements - Adverts - Access to readers/authors For industry, pharma, anyone?...
- 16. 4. Services Services for readers: - Reprints - Conference supplements Services for authors: - Language editing - Certificates - Posters etc. Others: - Conferences - Alternative publication types (data, images) - Management software - Metrics 16
- 17. Conclusion Open Access does not work for all journals Subscription revenue is under pressure All major publishers are looking at alternative revenue sources In the Future: Can journals be completely free of charge? 17
- 18. 18 Thank you!