{"id":55,"date":"2013-01-21T14:34:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/?p=55"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:35:09","slug":"gold-open-access-counting-the-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/2013\/01\/21\/gold-open-access-counting-the-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Open Access: Counting the Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digital Library team at the University of Edinburgh have written a new paper analysing the cost of Gold OA over the past few years. The data arises from managing the Wellcome Trust’s Open Access grant awarded to the university.<\/p>\n

Some of the article’s main take home messages are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hybrid journals seem to be more popular venues for Open Access \u00a0publication, and<\/li>\n
  2. Hybrid journals generally charge more than full OA journals\u00a0independent\u00a0of journal impact factor, and<\/li>\n
  3. There is a positive correlation between APC cost and impact factor for both hybrid and full OA journals.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Some more reflective points arising from the work:<\/p>\n

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    1. It appears that Open Access policies require rigorous compliance monitoring to be successful, and seem to be more effective when punitive sanctions are imposed.<\/li>\n
    2. Research-intensive institutions are likely to be hit by a cost \u2018double whammy\u2019; they not only publish more articles, but they also publish them more frequently in high-impact-factor journals.<\/li>\n
    3. Institutions need to be more open about costs, and publish the data in a format that allows reuse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The full article is available here:<\/p>\n

      http:\/\/www.ariadne.ac.uk\/issue70\/andrew<\/a><\/p>\n

      The data set upon which the article is based is available here:<\/p>\n

      http:\/\/datashare.is.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/10283\/250<\/a><\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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