From the Executive Director’s Desk (AAP/PSP)

"Analysis of the 2009 AAP Industry Statistics Report for Professional and Scholarly (PSP) journals publishing is now complete....As in past years, the two largest open access publishers did not submit data on their publishing programs so the analysis covers open access patterns across a universe where paid circulation, rather than the author-pays model, is the principal source of revenue....In 2008, 11.7% of all reporting titles offered open access in some form compared with 9.1% in 2007. Among journals reporting in 2009, 788 offered some form of open access, representing 13.7% of the total, thus showing modest but consistent growth over the three years. In 2009, the vast majority, 585 (74.2%), offered a hybrid model....The growth has been in the hybrid model (297 titles in 2007 to 552 in 2008 to 585 in 2009) and – even more significantly – in the delayed access model (72 titles in 2007 increasing to 86 in 2008 increasing again to 192 in 2009)...."