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Society publishers' attitudes toward OA SAGE has released Meeting the challenges: societies and scholarly communication (November 2008), the results of a survey it launched in September. See esp. Section 3.2.6 on Open Access:
Comment. The report does not indicate what percentage of the responding societies publish OA journals. Hence, it's hard to tell how well the respondents represent the range of societies on OA issues. Last year, for example, Caroline Sutton and I found 425 societies publishing 450 full OA journals, and 21 societies publishing 73 hybrid OA journals. (We'll soon release updated numbers which are considerably higher.) However, the survey was online and open to any society that wanted to fill it out. For the 118 societies filling out the survey, the OA positives were higher than the OA negatives. But I wish I knew whether a wider sample would have pushed the numbers higher or lower. Update (1/13/09). Also see Andrew Albanese's article on this survey for Library Journal. |