Research intelligence - Slow train coming

"[T]he jury is still out on the wisdom of SAGE, the US social science publisher, in launching the first major open-access title outside the sciences. Even Jayne Marks, vice-president and editorial director of the publisher's library information group, described SAGE Open, which will span the humanities and social sciences, as "very much a test model"....For its first year, Sage Open will charge just $195 (£122) to process an article, but Ms Marks admitted that the figure would not cover SAGE's costs and would have to rise to $695 in the second year...." Recent figures suggest that 14 per cent of open-access journal publishers are in the humanities, but they account for just 4 per cent of all open-access articles...."