UK scholarly journals: 2006 baseline report
An evidence-based analysis of data in scholarly journal publishing, including the volume and value of the journal market, usage, citation and impact factors and the cost and impact of open access journals.
A key issue for public policy is how best to promote and support the sustainable development of a world-class scholarly communications system for the UK. To develop these policies, solid and reliable evidence was needed about the current state of affairs. The RIN, the Department of Trade and Industry (now UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and Research Councils UK (RCUK) commissioned this report to be a review of data relating to the operation and costs of scholarly journal publishing. The work was undertaken by Electronic Publishing Services Ltd (now Outsell), in association with Loughborough University’s Department of Information Science.
The report looks at the volume and value of the academic journal market; journal supply-side economics, including the effort and costs incurred by researchers and by publishers as part of their contribution to the publishing process and usage, including the split between the leading journals and the rest and at citations and impact factors, including whether articles in subscription journals are more likely to be cited than those in open access journals, or vice versa.
It also focuses on where there are significant differences between researchers as readers or authors in different disciplines and looks at the costs an dimpact of open access journals and of digital repositories.
Follow-up activities
We held a workshop in November 2006 to discuss a plan of action for addressing the issues raised by this work.
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Anonymous said on 26 September 2011 at 4:53pm:
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Anonymous said on 11 August 2011 at 8:14am:
any new data I can use? 2006 is so far…
Anonymous said on 02 August 2011 at 1:58am:
Do you have any more recent data as using 2006 data as a baseline seems a bit outdated.
Anonymous said on 13 July 2011 at 2:10pm:
This is definitely an interesting topic…I would love to hear a follow up on this for the years since. Any work in progress on that?
Anonymous said on 07 July 2011 at 2:50pm:
I guess we just can’t tell what will happen with this until it happens. I know the use of open journals has definitely had a huge impact on our culture and media and even they way marketing and advertising are done…it would be a shame to lose them.
Anonymous said on 02 July 2011 at 2:44pm:
With “The report looks at the volume and value of the academic journal market; journal supply-side economics, including the effort and costs incurred by researchers and by publishers as part of their contribution to the publishing process and usage, including the split between the leading journals and the rest and at citations and impact factors, including whether articles in subscription journals are more likely to be cited than those in open access journals, or vice versa.”
Anonymous said on 02 July 2011 at 2:42pm:
Do you have any of the new data in relation to the article?
Anonymous said on 22 June 2011 at 8:56pm:
Just wondering if there have been any updates on this topic since 2006? I would be very interested in reading that!
Anonymous said on 18 April 2011 at 12:21am:
This is particularly interesting: “Overall, deposit of articles in open access repositories seems to be associated with both a larger number of citations, and earlier citations for the items deposited.” Would be interested in reading a follow up to the findings.
Anonymous said on 06 April 2011 at 10:10am:
Hi Sarah
I know the post is pretty old, but would love to read a follow up on how the workshop went? Did you post about it on the site?
Thanks
Anonymous said on 29 March 2011 at 1:52pm:
Definitely would love to compare this data with 2011. Wondering just how much does Obama-care effects the comparison. Would this even be an apples to apples comparison. Thanks
Anonymous said on 26 January 2011 at 1:46pm:
It’s interested to note whether articles in subscription journals get more citations than others. One would think that because open source journals are more readily available that more articles from these journals would be cited simply because more people have access to them. However, I would hypothesize that because subscription journals are often viewed to be more relevant and are usually harder to to get published in that they would be cited more than open source journal articles. I’m interested to see the results for this study. I wonder if researchers will focus more on one over the other after the results of this study are made public?
Sandra Begeon
HSA -Director of Staff
Anonymous said on 06 November 2010 at 2:21am:
Hi Sarah
I know the post is pretty old, but would love to read a follow up on how the workshop went? Did you post about it on the site?
Thanks
James
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