1. The drawbacks of 'gold', the advantages of
'green'
Wouter Gerritsma, WageningenUR Library
2. Publication output in NL and RoW
Scopus Art. Rev. & Let. WoS Art. Rev. & Let.
World NL World NL
2013 1,956,334 42,629 1,491,062 39,160
2012 1,870,334 41,218 1,368,277 37,620
2011 1,791,824 38,210 1,292,690 35,118
2010 1,673,252 36,017 1,292,690 27,789
NL share: 2.2% 2.6%
3. Rise of Gold #OpenAccess in NL
(based on WoS)
12.0%
10.0%
8.0%
6.0%
4.0%
2.0%
0.0%
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
% Open Access Articles, Reviews & Letters
Publication Year
4. Open Access articles in the Netherlands
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
OA Articles
Publication Year
WoS
Narcis
5. All Open Access publication types
deposited in Narcis in 2012
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
Article
Doctoral thesis
Report
Conference paper
Book part
Contribution to periodical
Working paper
Conference object
Book
Lecture
Book review
Annotation
Preprint
Patent
6. Article Processing Charges in 2013
for WoS covered articles – feb 2014
3314 articles in journals with APC
● Average APC in paid journals € 1220 (ex. VAT)
404 articles in journals without APC
Average APC overall € 1087 (ex. VAT)
7. Costs on Open Access Article Processing
Charges (APC)
2013 spending on WoS covered –gold- OA articles
● 4384 articles @ € 1087 = € 4.7 M (ex. VAT)
11. In a 100% Golden Open Access Dutch world
NL publishes about 45,000 articles, reviews & letters
NL universities 86% * NL authorship 66% = 25,542
25,542 articles * € 1087,- APC = € 27,7 M
To make 86% * 2.2% of world output gold OA
Current spending for all Dutch universities on annual
subscription costs € 34 M
Publishing & subscription costs amount ~ € 61.7 M