Our latest survey of Article Processing Charges (APCs) shows a complex and immature market, with pricing set at random and not yet aligned with demand. Over the last few years all the major publishers have added open access offerings to the bulk of their journals. Typically, existing journals are made hybrid by established publishers, in… Read More
As we go into 2018, it is interesting to reflect on continued developments in the open access landscape. The open access market manages to be both dynamic and slow moving at the same time. The open access market Itself will continue to grow – we estimate by 15-20% over 2017 – to be in excess… Read More
Delta Think’s OA Market Sizing shows that the OA market is now entrenched and growing faster than the underlying journals publishing market. We estimate it to be $470m in 2016 and on track to grow to half a billion dollars as we go from 2017 into 2018. However important challenges remain: OA’s share of output… Read More
With thousands of repositories now active, do they provide any indication of publishing activity? How much activity is really present in them? Our Open Access Data & Analytics Tool allows us to pull insights from the data – and now you can take a test drive too! Most scholarly publishers are familiar with arXiv as being… Read More