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Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences
David Ross, Publisher, STM
Caroline Porter, Publisher, HSS
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SAGE and Open Access
● Predominately a Humanities and Social Science Publisher.
● Publishes on behalf of over 250 societies, associations and institutions globally.
● Independent, founder owned.
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SAGE-Hindawi
● Partnership with Hindawi Publishing Corporation, based in Egypt.
● Launched a suite of OA titles in the medical and life sciences.
● Low cost experiment with minimal organisational impact.
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SOAP Project● Study of Open Access Publishing.
● EC Funded FP7 study into attitudes to OA in the academic communities.
● Approximately 1 million questionnaires, received 38,358 responses.
● Provided some key insights to the HSS community.
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
SOAP Results
● ~80% of Social Scientists who published an OA article did so free of charge.
● ~10% of the remainder didn’t know.
● ~5% of the remainder paid less that €250.
● I.e. Only ~5% of SS OA authors had paid a commercially viable rate.
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
SAGE Open: Overview
● First broad-scale OA product tailored to the social sciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities.
● Constructive, methodology-based peer-review and continuous, rapid publication.
● New features enable the community to extend peer-review beyond acceptance.
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DCLondon Online – 1st Dec, 2011
SAGE Open: YTD Data● Peer-review launched January 1
• 668 submissions • 61 countries
● SJO site (www.sageopen.com) launched May 16 • 32 articles published to date
● 611 Facebook fans
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Submissions by Month
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Top Countries SubmittingUnited States 188 30%
India 49 8%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 27 4%
Canada 23 4%
Pakistan 16 3%
United Kingdom 13 2%
Nigeria 11 2%
Portugal 10 2%
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Top Subjects Submitted
Education 94
Psychology 78
Management 54
Sociology 52
Political Science 46
Communication 43
Economics 25
Humanities 24
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Decision Statistics
Decision# of
Manuscripts % of Total
Accept 10 6.8%
Accept Pending Minor Revision
40 27.4%
Immediate Reject 20 13.8%
Major Revision 36 24.7%
Reject 40 27.4%
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1The "Current issue TOC" count is not summed into the monthly total since that count is also included in the "All TOCs" count.2The Robot/Crawler counts are excluded from the Total counts. Produced: August 5, 2011 06:36
SAGE Open YTD Usage Summary
Access Events to May Jun Jul Aug Sep OctTotal YTD
Home Page 6,891 4,624 4,129 16,429 11,854 17,436 61,363
Current issue TOC 0 0 0 33 76 123 232
All TOCs 0 0 0 128 350 520 998
Searches 4,234 1,108 642 1,780 2,279 3,442 13,485
Abstracts 22,771 6,048 4,255 11,812 7,334 9,756 61,976
Full-text HTML 2,431 1,631 1,166 3,446 2,668 3,821 15,163
PDFs 10,516 1,644 1,315 3,106 2,405 3,273 22,259
Data Supplements 0 0 250 224 318 258 1,050
Powerpoint 36 83 47 72 38 86 362
Total1 46,879 15,138 11,804 36,997 27,246 38,592 176,656
Crawler/Robot2 919 1,420 1,729 2,476 1,196 1,601 9,341
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Challenges/ Next Steps:
● Article editors
● Pricing
● Institutional support
● Work with Community to identify most effective way forward