The document summarizes findings from a study of open access publishing outlets. It found around 8-10% of annual articles are published in fully or hybrid open access journals. The majority of journals and articles come from a small number of large publishers, most of which are in science, technology and medicine. Two thirds of journals and three quarters of articles are in these fields. Both large and small publishers have journals listed in impact metrics like the ISI and Scopus, showing open access publishing has similar quality indicators as non-open access.

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?
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• 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
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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
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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
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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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