As the Plan S story continues to evolve, this month we look at how we can develop an understanding of what Plan S might mean for your particular organization. The Situation Continues to Evolve In late November, cOAlition S released some initial guidelines on the implementation of Plan S. It also announced that it is… Read More
Following its announcement on 4th September 2018, Plan S has generated considerable discussion both for and against. In late September, we took a look at the impact that Plan S might have on the scholarly market. Since then, four more funders supported Plan S and we have released our latest market sizing update. This month… Read More
Overview Delta Think’s OA Market Sizing shows that the open access market continues to grow faster than the underlying journals publishing market. (Market Size represents revenue generated by providers or, conversely, costs incurred to buyers of content.) We estimate it to have been worth $571m in 2017 and on track to grow to over $600m… Read More
Philadelphia, PA (October 22, 2018) – Delta Think (www.deltathink.com), a consulting and advisory firm focused on innovation and growth in scholarly communications, today announced the release of a new Open Access Market Sizing analysis as part of the continually updated Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool (OA DAT). Launched in January 2017, OA DAT… Read More
On 4th September 2018, 11 national European funding agencies (cOAlition S) announced Plan S, an initiative requiring every paper funded by its participants to be made freely available in fully OA publications as of 1st January 2020. Earlier this year we considered how a few possible future scenarios might affect the scholarly publishing market overall.… Read More
It’s not uncommon for us to hear a society or association voice strong reservations about starting an open access (OA) journal based on a fundamental belief that open access is synonymous with low quality. “A fully open access journal will dilute our brand” is one refrain; “We don’t want to start a ‘journal of rejects’”… Read More
The open access market is fragmented. Different approaches at scale are being explored by stakeholders, from wholesale flipping to offsetting deals, from price caps to restrictions on using hybrid journals. Meanwhile, the real adoption of open access has been slow, reaching just 21% of output in 16 years and accounting for only 4-6% of scholarly… Read More
Swedish consortium Bibams’s recent cancellation of its contract with Elsevier is the latest in a series of high-value “publish and read” negotiations to make the news. It follows other examples such as Germany’s Projekt DEAL (also affecting Elsevier) and France’s Le Consortium Couperin (affecting Springer Nature). These multi-million dollar (or Euro or Kroner) negotiations have… Read More