From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:38:05 +0530

In a blog post (forwarded by the LibLicense discussion forum, Ms Helen
Bray of Wiley writes "Open communication and conversation is the
lifeblood of change and growth." If that is Wiley's understanding, why
then only 28 of their journals are OA and not many more, if not all?
Also, huge APCs and subscription charges negates the very idea of
'open communication and conversation'.

Subbiah Arunachalam


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:35 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Gillingham, Emily - Oxford" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:29:52 +0100
>
> In case you were not aware, the results of Wiley’s open access survey
> of 8000+ authors have recently been published.  You can read a summary
> of the results on our Exchanges blog site here:
> http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/10/08/mind-the-gap-2013-wiley-open-access-survey/
>
> We’ve also created a data visualization tool so that you can drill
> into the data by research experience, region, and subject area,
> available here:
> http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/10/22/playing-with-numbers-opening-up-our-open-access-survey-data/
>
> And have published this infographic which shows key results from our
> author survey alongside OA results from our librarian survey
> (conducted in May) as well as Wiley’s own experiences of where authors
> who choose to publish OA are coming from:
> http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/10/25/oa-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/
>
> You can see more about the effect that funder mandates are having on
> the take-up of Wiley’s OA offerings here:
>
> http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/10/23/uk-open-access-mandates-six-months-on/
>
> Also, during this International Open Access Week, we announced the
> transition of four leading journals from the subscription model to
> Gold OA from January 2014, bringing the total number of Wiley’s open
> access titles to 28:
> http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-109721.html
>
> You can also read a comment here about the role of open communications
> in the open science movement:
> http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/10/24/five-reasons-for-publishers-to-move-towards-open-communication/
>
> More about Wiley Open Access can be found here: http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/
>
> To subscribe to email alerts or the RSS feed for our Exchanges blog
> please visit: http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/
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> All the best,
>
> Emily
>
> Emily Gillingham
> Director of Library Relations
> Global Research
> Wiley
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