From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:32:28 +0000

In Australia, the Journal of Physiotherapy (published by the
Australian Physiotherapy Association) will be going open access in
January 2014. It is published by Elsevier – and will be free to read,
free to publish.
http://www.physiotherapy.asn.au/JOP/Home/Open_Access.aspx

I have asked the editorial board about the arrangement they have made
with Elsevier.

There have been apparently many changes to the way the journal is
being produced in this change, but the ones of most relevance are that
by no longer producing and distributing the printed version of the
journal they save a considerable amount of money (but do lose some
revenue from advertising). The subscription income will no longer be
generated. They will also no longer run a website in parallel to the
publisher’s website which also saves some money.

Elsevier will run the only website for the journal –and the APA will
be paying for this service.

The editorial board noted that they had made the decision to make it
free to publish as most research done in the field is done without
funding so to impose a fee there would be a big drop in the submission
rate to the journal. To address this, APA will use the net savings
made in printing, mail-outs, and web site costs to pay the Open Access
Fees for all of the research articles published in the Journal of
Physiotherapy. So the journal will be run as a commercial open access
journal from the publisher’s perspective, but the organisation is
acting as the broker to pay for the APCs on behalf of their members.

In terms of the benefits to members (who no longer get an exclusive
subscription to the journal), the decision was made to keep some of
the supplementary content of the journal (Critically Appraised papers,
Clinimetrics, Guidelines, Media, Protocols) in a protected part of the
web site, available only to members and subscribers. However all of
the journal’s research content –the greater part of the journal, and
it’s core content – is open access.

Danny


Dr Danny Kingsley

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Executive Officer
Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG)
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The Australian National University
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