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Hybrid journals at Nature Publishing Group
COASP19th September, 2013
James Butcher PhDAssociate Director
Open Publishing
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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 Reports
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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)
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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 journal
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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 sciences
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OA uptake rate
• In 2012, 41% of authors chose OA• In 2013, 31% of authors chose OA
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• OA uptake rate varies by subject• In 2013:
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Licenses
• We started to offer CC BY in April, 2013• Since then, ~25% of OA authors have
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• 35% of authors choose the most restrictive license
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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?
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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)
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• Published 618 papers• 72% were CC-BY-NC-SA• 28% were CC-BY-NC-ND
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• Changed the order on the form to:– ND– SA– BY
• 36 authors chose a license in the following 3 week period:
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MetricsWeb 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 >10
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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.
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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%