Re: Quality and mandated open access

["Sally Morris \(Chief Executive\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

I'm not sure if anyone has analysed the relative 'quality' (as 
measured by such metrics as impact factor, usage, frequency of 
publication, recency of publication, number of papers published, 
rejection rate, time to publication, nature of peer review 
process, nature of editorial board etc - some of these, 
obviously, more easily ascertainable than others) on a comparable 
cohort (for age, subject area etc) of OA and non-OA journals?

I think that would be a really useful way to validate statements 
such as Heather's

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org
Website:  www.alpsp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:05 PM
Subject: Quality and mandated open access

> Peter Banks, in:  re:  October issue of the SPARC Open Access 
> Newsletter, questions whether quality can be sustained with 
> mandated open access.
>
> There is already substantial evidence that the answer is yes.
>
> There are over 2,400 fully open access, peer reviewed journals 
> listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the 
> number of titles has been growing fairly consistently at the 
> rate of about 1.5 per calendar day.  Peer review and open 
> access are quite compatible. http://www.doaj.org
>
> Self-archiving rates of 100% in some sub-areas of physics has 
> been compatible with ongoing subscriptions.  This may seem 
> counter- intuitive, from an economic point of view.  However, 
> academic publishing is different from an economic viewpoint, 
> because the customers and suppliers are largely the same group 
> of people (researchers, their students and institutions). 
> Faculty understand very well the role of their journals, are 
> very involved in decisions about subscriptions, and do not look 
> for cancellations when articles are freely available thanks to 
> self-archiving.
>
> The article in the October SPARC Open Access Newsletter Peter 
> Banks was referring to, Open Access and Quality, can be found 
> at: 
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-06.htm#quality
>
> Heather Morrison
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com