Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017
Published: August 26, 2014
- 61 Pages
Table of Contents
- Methodology
- Executive Summary
- Open Access Publishing Market
- Introduction
- Origins of a Movement
- Timeline
- Table Timeline of Open Access Publishing, 2000 - 2004
- Table Timeline of Open Access Publishing, 2005 – 2014
- Open Access Definitions and Publishing Models
- Open Access Journals
- Gold
- Green
- Hybrid
- Megajournals
- Article Processing Charges
- Other Sources of Support for OA Articles
- The Open Access Ecosystem
- Public Funding Agencies
- National Institutes of Health
- European Research Council
- Research Councils UK
- The Wellcome Trust
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Institutional Mandates
- Market Size
- Table Open Access Publishing Market, Various Metrics, 2011-2013 ($ in millions)
- APC Journals Revenue
- Other Journals OA Revenue
- Other Measures of Market Size
- Open Access by Discipline
- Open Access Publishing by Geography
- North America
- Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- Rest of the World
- Language
- Leading Open Access Publishers & Repositories
- Introduction
- Leading Open Access Publishers
- Springer Science+Business Media (including BioMed Central)
- Company Overview
- Table Leading Open Access Publishers Share, 2013
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Table Leading Open Access Publishers, 2011-2013 ($ in millions1)
- Company Overview
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
- Competitor Overview
- Table Leading Open Access Publishers, 2011-2013
- Recent Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Competitor Overview
- Hindawi
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- John Wiley & Sons
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Elsevier
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Holtzbrinck (including Frontiers)
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Copernicus
- Competitor Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- MDPI AG
- Competitor Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Wolters Kluwer (including Medknow)
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Informa Cogent
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Others in the Hunt
- Open Access Repositories (Green Archives)
- Table Notable Open Access Repositories
- arXiv
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CiteSeerX
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
- ePrint
- PubMed Central
- Redalyc
- SciELO
- SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network)
- Mergers & Acquisitions in Open Access Publishing Market
- Table Notable Open Access Publishing M&A Activity, January 2008 - June 2014
- Issues Facing Open Access Publishing & Forecast
- Introduction
- Issues Facing Open Access Publishing
- Open Access Is Not Done Evolving
- Every OA Publisher Is Facing a Credibility Problem of One Type or Another
- Leading OA Publishers Branded as Predatory
- Peer Review Is a Particular Target for Criticism
- Not Every Journal Is Amenable to Open Access Gold
- Megajournals Have Driven Much Recent Growth, But the Future Is Unclear
- OA Could Be Expensive and Inflationary - Then What?
- Managerial Challenges
- Authors in Charge
- Destructive Market Forces
- Open Access Publishing Forecast
- Introduction
- Table Open Access Market Forecast, Various Metrics, 2014P-2017P ($ in millions)
- World Economy and Exchange Rates
- Open Access Will Capture a Significant Share of Emerging Market Research
- Authors Will Be Educated About Good and Bad OA Journals
- Mandates Will Increase and They Will Work
- Major Publishers Will Play a Larger Role in OA
- OA Articles Published Per Year Will Continue to Grow
- The Humanities and Social Sciences Will Be Accommodated
- APCs Will Rise Slowly
- Introduction
- Forecast of Leading Publishers
- Table Leading Open Access Publishers, 2013-2014P ($ in millions)
Abstract
Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017
What is “open access,” and how it is affecting academic publishing market? And, equally intriguing, what opportunities can publishers tap through the open access movement?
These and other cutting-edge topics are addressed in Simba Information’s report, Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017.
This report breaks ground by quantifying open access’ position as a fast growing subsegment of scholarly journal publishing. Simba created a financial outlook for open access journal publishing, including leading competitors’ performance through 2014 and market projections through 2017. The research underpinning this model was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.
Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017 covers the market, key competitors, and issues and forecasts. Topics covered include:
What is “open access,” and how it is affecting academic publishing market? And, equally intriguing, what opportunities can publishers tap through the open access movement?
These and other cutting-edge topics are addressed in Simba Information’s report, Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017.
This report breaks ground by quantifying open access’ position as a fast growing subsegment of scholarly journal publishing. Simba created a financial outlook for open access journal publishing, including leading competitors’ performance through 2014 and market projections through 2017. The research underpinning this model was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.
Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017 covers the market, key competitors, and issues and forecasts. Topics covered include:
- Simba’s exclusive analysis of market size and structure
- Revenue and market share rankings of 10 leading global publishers
- Title and article growth metrics
- A profile of the top ten open access repositories
- A breakdown open access publishing in key geographic regions: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World
- A discussion of the market for non-English-language open access publishing
- Analysis of mergers and acquisitions
- Simba’s exclusive market projections to 2017 and more
- The future of open access megajournals
- The impact of open access in social science and humanities
- Examination of green, gold and hybrid models
- Open access, peer review and questions of credibility
- The impact on smaller publishers
- Long-term implications for costs across the OA ecosystem
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