Gold OA journals market 'set to double by 2018' | The Bookseller

"The global market for gold OA journals is to grow at 20% per annum for the next four to five years, according to strategy consultants OC&C. The firm, which has worked with academic publishing for between 10 and 15 years, estimates that the value of gold OA research publication - worth €200m in 2013 – will double in value by 2018. OC&C puts gold OA currently at around 6% of the current global Academic & Scientific Journal Content Market, which it puts at around €3.3bn worldwide. Within 10 years, gold OA output will reach between 35-50% of total research output, it predicts, despite the lack of an explicit mandates for it outside the UK. However according to the consultancy's predictions, the growth curve for gold OA will plateau thereafter ..."