Re: Cambridge Open Option

From: Jan Velterop <openaccess_at_BTINTERNET.COM>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:47:04 +0100

Stevan,

The formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers journals and the formerly
Springer titles are now (actually, since about 3 years) all Springer
journals and the portfolio includes almost 1300 research journals in
total.

Best,

Jan

On 13 Aug 2006, at 15:20, Stevan Harnad wrote:

> In Open Access News, Peter Suber wrote:
>
>> I applaud Cambridge's decision to continue to allow immediate OA
>> archiving of peer-reviewed author manuscripts, even when authors
>> choose not to participate in Cambridge Open. That's a step most of
>> the other OA hybrid programs have been unwilling to take.
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/
> 2006_08_06_fosblogarchive.html#115541257244113445
>
> Actually, Cambridge University Press's commendable Open Access Policy:
>
> (1) Green on PREPRINT self-archiving
> (2) Green on immediate, unembargoed POSTPRINT self-archiving
> *and*
> (3) Hybrid Gold (Cambridge Open Option)
>
> is optimal, but CUP, now offering Open Option (for 15 of its 186
> journals)
> is not alone or in the minority among Green Publishers! For example,
> Springer's Open Choice covers Springer's 502 Journals and (I believe)
> Kluwer's 837 journals, and these journals are all solid GREEN.
>
> I will provide the figures in terms of number and percentage of
> journals
> rather than in terms of number and percentage of publishers
> (because some
> publishers publish 1000+ journals and some publish only one!). (The
> primary data are from SHERPA-Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php ;
> they are recoded at EPrint-Romeo http://romeo.eprints.org/ ):
>
> GREEN journals (6458/9214) (70%):
> Endorse POSTPRINT (G) or both POSTPRINT and PREPRINT (Gg) self-
> archiving
>
> PALE-GREEN journals (2113/9214) (23%):
> Endorse PREPRINT (g) self-archiving only.
>
> GRAY journals (627/9214) (7%):
> Endorse neither PREPRINT nor POSTPRINT (X) self-archiving
>
> The embargoes (1864/9214) (20%) are, as you would expect, and almost
> by definition, mostly among the PALE-GREEN journals, who only endorse
> PREPRINT (g) self-archiving:
>
> GREEN (Gg + G) journal embargoes: 27/6458 = <1%
> PALE-GREEN (g) journal embargoes: 1821/2113 = 86%
> GRAY (X) journal embargoes: 16/627 = 3%
>
> Note that the right way to interpret this is that the endorsement
> of delayed
> self-archiving is an *advance* over no endorsement of self-
> archiving at all.
>
> So the 14% of PALE-GREEN (g) journals who don't endorse at least
> delayed
> postprint self-archiving are in fact *less* progressive than the 86%
> that do endorse postprint self-archiving after a delay.
>
> And of course the 3% of GRAY journals that endorse delayed self-
> archiving
> are at least a smidgen more progressive than those who don't endorse
> self-archiving at all (though two of these -- the Modern Humanities
> Research Association journals with a 24-month embargo and the 6 Inter
> Research journals with a *48-month* embargo are a bit of a joke!).
>
> A few updates have to be done, however, in both SHERPA-Romeo and
> EPrints-Romeo, to downgrade the 27 (1%) of the 6458 GREEN (G)
> journals to
> GRAY (X), because embargoed self-archiving is definitely *not* Green.
>
> Data details, including the minor re-classifications that are
> needed, appear below.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Australian Psychological Society 12 (3, GREEN-Gg) G-->g
>
> Royal College of Psychiatrists 12 (5 GREEN-G) 5G-->X
> **Royal Statistical Society 12 (3 GREEN-X) 3G-->X
> Society for Endocrinology 12 (3 GREEN-X) 3G-->X
> *Inter Research 48! (6, GREEN-X) 6G-->X
> Modern Humanities Research Association 24! (6, GREEN-X) 6G-->X
>
> Total 9339 --> 9197 --> 9214
> GREEN (G or Gg)6483 69% --> 70% (+1)--> 6484 70% -3 -23 --> 6458 70%
> PALE-GREEN (g) 2248 24% (-138) = 2110 --> 23% +3 --> 2113 --> 23%
> GRAY 604 7% (+16)--> 620 7% +23 --> 627 7%
>
> Embargoes Total: 1864/9214 = 20%
> Gg 3
> G 1 5 3 3 6 6 = 24 >1%
> g 1 698 1 47 188 50 9 56 771 = 1821 86%
> X 16 3%
>
> Association of Applied Biologists 12 (1, PALE-GREEN)
> Blackwell 6/12 (698, PALE-GREEN)
> Nature Publishing Group 6 (47, PALE-GREEN)
> Oxford 12/24 (188 PALE-GREEN)
> University of Chicago Press (some) (50, PALE-GREEN)
> Yale Law School 12 (9, PALE-GREEN)
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 12 (56, PALE-GREEN)
> Taylor & Francis 12/18 (909 -138 = 771 PALE-GREEN: double-counts!)
> 83 Dekker, 27 Psychology Press, 28, CRC Press
>
> ***University of Texas Press (some) (not yet listed) (16, GRAY)
> ****Biophysical Society ? (1, GREEN) (not yet listed)
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