Contents
Introduction
1 Overview
2 Study design and response
3
Detailed findings
4 Case studies and verbatim comments
5
Sponsors
6 Glossary
7 Survey instrument
In the first phase of the study, the researchers surveyed 495 journals from
four groups: ALPSP member journals (128), AAMC member journals (34), a subset of
journals hosted by HW (85) and 248 journals from the Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ).
The survey consisted of 33 closed-ended and 5 open-ended questions and
addressed the following major categories:
- Demographic: Including type of publisher, location of publishing offices,
subject area, type of content published
- Financial: Including revenue models, sources of financial support,
percentage of total each revenue type represents, revenue trends and
expectations, current surplus or deficit
- Non-financial: Including print format, copyediting policy, number of
internal/external peer reviews, services offered to Authors, copyright and
permissions policies, pre/post-publishing rights of authors
The open-ended questions asked for the respondent's thoughts on the
challenges and opportunities presented by open access, as well as the movement's
impact on their own journal or journals and all of scholarly publishing.
In the second phase of the study in-depth interviews were conducted with 22
scholarly journal publishers of all types and sizes, representing more than
4,000 journals.
The survey covers the full spectrum of business models being used in
scholarly publishing - from traditional access provided primarily via
subscriptions (Subscription Access) through Delayed Open Access to Optional
(author-side payment) and Full Open Access. The sponsors hope that this research
will contribute to further informed discussion of alternative publishing models
toward the goal of providing wide and speedy access to research findings in the
public interest.