There’s some uncertainty as to exactly how quickly the ranks of open access journals are growing. As Heather Morrison notes in a recent blog post, as early as 2005 some were arguing (with data) that the peak growth of open access journals was past. The current conventional wisdom seems to be that growth rates are [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Submission fees: a means of defraying costs for OA journals?
I was struck by a recent report on a talk by Harold Varmus that
The [PLoS] peer reviewed journals now had high reputations, and rejected some 90% of submissions, but had needed to raise fees beyond his forecast of five years ago to cover costs. While the regular journals were still making losses, and these [...]
Reflecting on Open Access Day
Yesterday was the first Open Access Day — and what a day it was. What follows are my personal reflections.
I wasn’t able to be as involved with OA Day as I would have liked, due to a variety of personal matters, but I still think of it as (in some part) my baby. I was [...]
