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Leigh-Ann Butler Jun 17, 2024

Eric Schares Jun 17, 2024

Last week we released a new, open dataset of list #APC prices from 2019-2023, containing over 36,000 individual data points across 8,712 unique journals from six scholarly publishers. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CR1MMV .

An accompanying data paper describes the methods and (extensive) data cleaning needed to harmonize the various formats. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356 .

Part of a project I have been working on with great colleagues at the ScholCommLab in Canada: @stefhaustein @leighbutler @juancommander

Open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) of gold and hybrid journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, PLOS, Springer-Nature and Wiley 2019-2023

This open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) was produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers (Elsevier, Fronti...

Harvard Dataverse

Leigh-Ann Butler Nov 8, 2023

Eric Schares Nov 8, 2023

Terrific article (and dataset) out now @QSS_ISSI showing just how much the Big 5 publishers made from #APCs over four years - $1.06 Billion!

Also clearly lays out how different publishers pursue different strategies - "Elsevier and Wiley mak[e] most APC revenue from hybrid fees and others focus on gold."

Big congrats to the team! @stefhaustein @leighbutler https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00272

The Oligopoly’s Shift to Open Access. How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Processing Charges

Abstract. This study aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley between 2015 and 2018. Using publication data from WoS, OA status from Unpaywall and annual APC prices from open datasets and historical fees retrieved via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, we estimate that globally authors paid $1.06 billion in publication fees to these publishers from 2015–2018. Revenue from gold OA amounted to $612.5 million, while $448.3 million was obtained for publishing OA in hybrid journals. Among the five publishers, Springer-Nature made the most revenue from OA ($589.7 million), followed by Elsevier ($221.4 million), Wiley ($114.3 million), Taylor & Francis ($76.8 million) and Sage ($31.6 million). With Elsevier and Wiley making most of APC revenue from hybrid fees and others focusing on gold, different OA strategies could be observed between publishers.Peer Review. https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1162/qss_a_00272

MIT Press

Leigh-Ann Butler Apr 19, 2023

petersuber Apr 18, 2023

All 40+ editors of #Elsevier's _NeuroImage_ just resigned to protest the journal's high #APC and launch a new, more affordable #OpenAccess journal.
https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf

"Elsevier…set the NeuroImage APC…at $3,450 USD. Compared against this, estimates of direct article costs at relevant journals are generally around $1,000 or lower.…It is wrong for publishers to make such high profits."

See the #OpenAccessDirectory list of similar journal Declarations of Independence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence

Leigh-Ann Butler Dec 11, 2022

petersuber Dec 11, 2022

"While all scientific results from the #LHCb [Large #Hadron Collider Beauty] collaboration are already publicly available through #openaccess papers, the #data used by the researchers to produce these results is now accessible to anyone in the world through the #CERN #opendata portal. The data release is made in the context of CERN's Open Science Policy."
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-large-hadron-collider-beauty.html

PS: Using unique & expensive equipment makes it more urgent than ever to share one's data.

#physics #particlephysics

Large Hadron Collider Beauty releases first set of data to the public

The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN is the world's leading experiment in quark flavor physics with a broad particle physics program. Its data from Runs 1 and 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has so far been used for over 600 scientific publications, including a number of significant discoveries.

Phys.org

Leigh-Ann Butler Nov 10, 2022

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astrobri Nov 10, 2022

Also yesterday, a new colleague asking whether we maybe have a secret APC fund (we do not - some small internal grants that could go to it, but you are pretty much screwed if you don't have a national grant).