Nature Publishing Group COASP 19 th September 2013 James Butcher PhD Associate Director Open Publishing OA at NPG 61 NPG journals are fully OA or have an OA option NPG will publish 5000 OA papers ID: 140721
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Hybrid journals at Nature Publishing Group
COASP
19
th
September, 2013
James Butcher PhD
Associate Director
Open PublishingSlide2
OA at NPG
61 NPG journals are fully OA or have an OA option
NPG will publish ~5000 OA papers
in 2013 (not including Frontiers)
46 are hybrid OA journals
~1300
OA
articles in 2013
~800 will be published in 45 journals
(~5% uptake
)
~500 will be published in Nature Communications (~30% uptake)
15 journals are fully OA
~3700 OA articles in 2013
~1200 in 14 specialist fully OA journals
~2500 in Scientific ReportsSlide3
Nature Communications
Launched
in April 2010
Scope: all areas of the natural sciences
Authors can choose subscription or OA at acceptance
~20% accept rate
In-house
editorial team
Offers three Creative Commons licenses
CC BY ($5200)
CC BY-NC-ND ($4800)
CC BY-NC-SA ($4800)Slide4
Submissions
Received ~20,000 submissions since launch
The journal received ~1200 submissions in August 2013;
(Nature receives ~900 / month)
~33% of submissions were previously considered at another Nature journalSlide5
The editorial team
has grown…
18 months ago…Slide6
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Publications
Published 701 papers in 2012
Expect to publish
~1600
papers in
2013, of which ~500 will be OA
In 2012, the 16 Nature Research Journals published ~2100 papers
53% biology
33% physics
11% chemistry
3% earth and environmental sciencesSlide8
OA uptake rate
In 2012, 41% of authors chose OA
In 2013, 31%
of authors chose
OA
OA uptake rate varies by subject
In 2013:
39% of biologists chose OA
34% of physicists chose OA
23% of earth scientists chose OA
22% of chemists chose OASlide9
Licenses
We started to offer CC BY in April, 2013
Since then, ~25% of OA authors have chosen CC BY
The uptake of CC BY-NC-ND has not changed; it looks as though some of the CC BY-NC-SA authors have moved to CC BY
35% of authors choose the most restrictive license
OASPA membership
NPG
does not qualify for membership
of OASPA because
we offer
SA and ND
licenses on all our OA journals.
However, 75
% of
our authors choose these licenses.Should publishing companies dictate license terms to authors?Slide10
1 July 2012 – 7 Nov 2012
We started to offer CC-BY on July 1
Published ~230 papers
Order of the license on the form was:
SA
ND
BY
Were more authors choosing ND because it was the middle option?
An aside: license choice
(Scientific Reports)
June 2011 – July 2012
Published 618 papers
72% were CC-BY-NC-SA
28% were CC-BY-NC-ND
Next 3 weeks
Changed the order on the form to:ND
SABY36 authors chose a license in the following 3 week period:Slide11
Metrics
Web traffic
5.5m page views in 2012
7
.2m page views in Jan to Aug 2013
Impact factor
The 2012 impact factor is 10.015
~150 journals (out of 8500) have an IF >10Slide12
Unanswered questions
Are open access articles cited more than subscription articles?
Does this vary by subject area?
Are open access articles viewed more than subscription articles?
Is there a correlation between page views and citations?
We are looking for a statistician to independently analyse this data set. Recommendations welcome.Slide13
NPG does not “double dip”
Nature Publishing Group has published its hybrid journal site license pricing policy.
Under
this policy, any price adjustments for 2014
(for example) are
based on the
year-on-year change in subscription
content published in 2011 and 2012.
For example
In 2011 Journal X publishes 100 subscription papers
In 2012 Journal X starts to offer OA as hybrid option
In 2012 Journal X publishes 80 subscription papers and 20 OA papers
Therefore the price in 2014 would decrease by 20%
However, at the request of our librarian panel, the price will not change unless the % change (either up or down) is >10%