Universities UK’s Monitoring the Transition to Open Access 2015 report and its recent 2017 update provide an interesting source of information about the effects of open access on a sample of UK societies. But how well does the data project onto the wider global picture? In combination with Delta Think’s extensive experience working with more… Read More
In December, Universities UK published a 2017 update to its 2015 study, Monitoring the Transition to Open Access. The results are important to all publishers as the UK public and private funders are taking a leadership position in shifting the market towards open access. What happens in the UK now may hint at what the… Read More
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
Although many societies and associations offer hybrid options within their journals, launching a fully open access journal, or “flipping” an existing journal to fully open access, presents an organization with questions, challenges, and opportunities. The breadth of the decisions to be made cover a wide range of activities from editorial selectiveness to pricing models to… 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