Evolution of Cellular Networks: Science publishers' pyramid structure and lock-in strategies

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-10-21

Summary:

"It is not recent news that AAAS will start a digital open access multidisciplinary journal. It is called Science Advances and it will be the 4th journal of the AAAS family of journals. As I have described in the past this is part of trend in science publishing to cover wider range of perceived impact. Publishers are aiming to have journals that are highly selective and that drive brand awareness but also have journals that can publish almost any article that pass a fairly low bar of being scientifically sound. This trend was spurred by the success of PLOS One that showed that it is financially viable to have large open access journals. Financially, the best strategy today would be to have some highly selective journals with a subscription model and then a set of journals that are less selective that operate with an author paying model.  The Nature Publishing Group has implemented this strategy very well. They increased their portfolio of open access journals with the addition of Nature Communications, Scientific Data,  Scientific Reports, the partner journals initiative and the investment/partnership with the Frontiers journals.  NPG has also expanded their set of subscription based Nature branded research and review journals ..."

Link:

http://www.evocellnet.com/2014/10/science-publishers-pyramid-structure.html

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.gold oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.societies oa.npg oa.aaas oa.journals

Date tagged:

10/21/2014, 09:33

Date published:

10/21/2014, 05:33