From: Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:24:06 +0200

I have also been questioning the validity of this "70-80% no-APC OA
journals" figure. The number of articles actually published with a
fee is more difficult to obtain as even within large OA journals there
is a significant fraction of articles published in open access format
with charges waived. MDPI published 7000 papers in open access format
in 2012, whereof roughly 1/3 had no charges at all. The best approach
would be to choose a random sample of articles from the DOAJ published
in 2012, and contact the authors to find out if there was a charge
associated with their paper published in OA format.

Best,
Dietrich

On 31.05.2013 06:29, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:43:57
> +0000
>
> Dear Lars,
>
> Thanks for sharing this link about the 70% of journals not charging
> APCs, according to the DOAJ.
>
> An important question however is what proportion of open access
> articles do these 70% of journals publish? Some of the biggest
> journals, such as PLOS One, charge APCs. Does anyone know of a
> report that could indicate how many open access *articles* are
> published with an author fee?
>
> Also important to note that some open access journals that do not
> charge APCs recoup costs through indirectly charging their authors
> through society membership fees (and the society covers all or part
> of the APCs).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Iain Hrynaszkiewicz Outreach Director FACULTY of 1000
> http://f1000.com Email: [log in to unmask] London W1T 4LB,
> UK
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Lars Bjørnshauge" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:16:51 +0200
>
> Sandy,
>
> to your questions below:
>
> The 30% of OA-journals applying APCs covers a wide range of journals,
> many of these from PloS, BMC, Springer Open, Hindawi, Copernicus,
> Dove, MDPI etc. to a number of smaller publishers like Co-Action
> etc.
>
> The 30% figure is generated from the DOAJ where you can browse for
> journals with/without APCs -
> http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=byPublicationFee&uiLanguage=en.
>
> Allthough we haven´t had as our first priority to check DOAJ against
> various lists of "shabby" publishers I am absolutely sure that only
> a small fraction of the 30% (2500+ journals) is listed by Beall.
>
> The criteria currently applied by DOAJ in the selcetion process you
> can find here -
> http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTemplate&template=about&uiLanguage=en#criteria.
>
>  DOAJ will shortly launch new, tighter, even more objective,
> transparent and more detailed criteria more closely addressing the
> quality of the editorial process and openness.
>
> Lars Bjørnshauge
>
> e.mail:  [log in to unmask]  or [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]