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Open Access in the Humanities
and Social Sciences
A SAGE Perspective
David Ross, Executive Publisher – Open Access
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334 journals but only 9% of Social Science journals
levy any charge
Medicine
23%
Health Sciences
23%
Science
18%
Social Sciences
11%
Technology and Engineering
8%
Biology and Life Sciences
8%
Agriculture
5%
Mathematics
4%
DOAJ Articles by Subject
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Why SAGE Open?
● Leading Social Science publisher – founded 50 years
ago with Urban Affairs Review
● Supporting and nurturing interdisciplinary research
● Campaign for Social Science and social science
research
● Independent – long term view, the HSS funding
challenge
● The first HSS “mega journal” - premier destination for
quality OA research in HSS
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SAGE Open: Facts and stats
● Opened for submssions Dec 2010
● Launched April 2011 with 6 papers
● Over 2,900 submissions from 104 countries
to date
● 1500 submissions in 2013
● 500 articles published
● Over 730,000 Downloads
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What APC in HSS?
$195 $395 $99
SAGE Open survey: Over 70% constituted personal payments
904
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$695 List Price
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Monthly submissions data
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Submissions by Month
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How many Editors & Reviewers?
23,770 registered
reviewers
7,400 invited to
review
3,572 reviewed
12,062 invited
article editors
2,100 agreed
article editors
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The challenge
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SAGE Open Rejection Rate
41 38
112
270
142
191
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Articles Rejected by Year
# Desk Rejects # Reject w/Review
61%
62% 62%
57%
56%
54%
50%
52%
54%
56%
58%
60%
62%
64%
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Reject Rate by Year
w/desk rejects Excluding desk rejects
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Where are our authors?
Australia Canada India Iran Nigeria United Kingdom United States
2011 23 41 65 32 29 19 411
2012 17 29 14 19 21 12 170
2013 74 61 76 74 73 64 423
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NumberofSubmissions
Top 7 Submitting Countries
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71% of respondents said SAGE
Open was their first choice
Top considerations for submitting:
● SAGE’s reputation
● Subject fit
● Quality of previously published authors or
papers
● Internationality of journal
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Top subjects for submissions
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Education
Psychology
Sociology
Management
Communication
Political Science
Humanities
Criminology
Economics
Research Methods
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Citations
● Total Cited SAGE Open Articles: 65
● SAGE Open Articles cited
by ISI ranked journals: 23
● Total Citations: 112
● Citations by ranked journals: 31
● Most citations of one article: 10
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Lessons Learnt
● Selection Mechanisms Different in HSS
● Intellectual Property is the idea itself
● Immediacy not so crucial
● Licensing - Concerns over derivative use
● SAGE Open is additive – it has created a new vehicle
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―The future is already here —
it's just not very evenly
distributed‖
William Gibson
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Thank You
david.ross@sagepub.co.uk
Hinweis der Redaktion
BBSRC – Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilNERC – natural EnvironmentScience and Tech FacilitiesESRC - AHRC
Cf 60% in biological and life science
Next challenge was how to engage a community whose understanding of OA was limited.Decide to build a broach church. By not having a dedicated Ed board it’s a broad as it can be – i.e. it’s the whole community.
Explaining what the criteria was
BBSRC – Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilNERC – natural EnvironmentScience and Tech FacilitiesESRC - AHRC