Counting fee-based and no-fee open access journals

peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-05-24

Summary:

"Note that there are nearly twice as many no-fee journals as fee-based journals. This ratio will come into better focus as the no-info tally shrinks. 

For some idea of where the ratio might settle, see the numbers from April 2015 <https://goo.gl/fEO1h1>, the last time the DOAJ reported separately on no-fee and no-info journals. At that time, 32% of its journals were fee-based, 67% were no-fee, and 9% were no-info...."

Link:

https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/HjrRDcrZS8p

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.fees oa.no-fee oa.business_models oa.doaj oa.journals

Date tagged:

05/24/2016, 15:12

Date published:

05/24/2016, 11:12