Society publishers’ OA output grew four-fold since 2012 | Research Information

"Members of the Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC) are making steady and deliberate progress towards open access (OA) publishing, in terms of both individual articles and entire journals, according to a white paper published by the group. The white paper, published in conjunction with Digital Science and Dimensions, shows that published research is being more widely disseminated, and higher impact levels are being reached through increased usage and citations.

The SocPC data clearly show the progress made over the last 10 years. The number of open access journals published by SocPC members has grown steadily and the proportion of paywalled content published in SocPC journals dropped from 95.1% to 78.1% between 2012 and 2022. Among SocPC members, journals publishing exclusively paywalled content have been in sharp decline. Over the last decade, the number of open access journals (defined as member journals publishing between 90% and 100% of their articles as OA) has multiplied nearly five-fold since 2012. The percentage of OA articles published in member journals has grown from less than 5% to nearly 22% in the same period...."