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In today's global market, it's more important than ever to understand the changing dynamics of scholarly and professional publishing. Rely on Simba Information's ‘Open Access Journal Publishing 2018-2022’ to build your growth plan for this year and beyond.
This report explains the origins of the open access movement, gives a timeline for its development, but most importantly, Simba Information quantifies open access' position as a fast growing subsegment of scholarly journal publishing. Simba used the information it gathered through primary and secondary research to develop a financial outlook for open access journal publishing including leading competitors' performance through 2018 and market projections through 2022. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.
‘Open Access Journal Publishing 2018-2022’ contains separate chapters covering the market, key competitors, and issues and forecast that include:
- Simba's exclusive analysis of market size and structure
- Revenue and market share rankings of 10 leading global publishers
- Title and article growth metrics
- A breakdown of players in the open access ecosystem including public and private research funders.
- A breakdown open access publishing in key geographic regions: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World
- A discussion of the market for non-English-language open access publishing
- Analysis of mergers and acquisitions
- Simba's exclusive market projections to 2022 and more
Publishers and investment professionals can trust ‘Open Access Journal Publishing 2018-2022’ to provide the inside intelligence needed to evaluate growth potential, understand trends affecting the industry, and size up the competition.
Examples of some of the issues discussed include:
- The competition among open access megajournals
- Examination of green, gold, hybrid and membership models
- Open access, peer review and questions of quality and impact
- The impact of piracy on the transition to OA
- Traditional publishers' strategies and growing market share
- OA's impact on “big deal” subscription model
- Rise of predatory publishers
- The role of OA mandates in this evolution
‘Open Access Journal Publishing 2018-2022’ is an essential tool for publishing executives, M&A advisors, market analysts, and industry consultants who need to understand the business strategies driving the scholarly and professional publishing industry.
Simba has a knowledge base from more than 20 years worth of perspective on these markets. This is not a static industry. It's one that's affected by rapid changes in technology, the economy, mergers, partnerships and public policy and library budgets. Simba's experienced analysts and daily on the ball coverage is the bedrock for these reports.
Table of Contents
Methodology
- Definition of Open Access Journal Publishing
- Scope of the Report
- Sources of Information
- Methodology for Projecting/Estimating Results
Executive Summary
- Introduction
- What is Open Access Publishing?
- Key Facts & Trends
- Author Processing Fees Account for 2017 Sales of $494 Million
- OA Journals Less Than 5% of Journal Sales, but Get All the Buzz
- Millions of Open Access Articles Published, Growing More Than 6.5% Per Annum
- Springer Nature Remains the Largest OA Journal Publisher
- Traditional Publishers Climbing OA Market Share
- PLOS Tumbles, Effectively Displaced by Scientific Reports and Nature Communications
- Medicine and Life Science Are the Largest OA Journal Market
- Open Access Is Global
- Open Access Journal Publishing Consolidates
- Open Access Remains Controversial
Open Access Journal Market
- Introduction
- Key Developments in Open Access
- Open Access Definitions and Publishing Models
- Open Access Journals
- Gold
- Green
- Hybrid
- Megajournals
- Article Processing Charges (APCs)
- Institutional Memberships
- The Open Access Ecosystem
- Public Funding Agencies
- National Institutes of Health
- European Research Council
- Research Councils UK
- The Wellcome Trust
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- Institutional Mandates
- Market Size
- Table Open Access Journal Market by Metric, 2015-2017
- APC Journal Revenue
- Direct Support
- Premium Services
- Memberships
- Offset Agreements
- Other Measures of Market Size
- Open Access by Discipline
- Medical & Biosciences
- Table OA Journal Revenue, Share by Academic Discipline, 2017
- Scientific & Technical
- Social Science and Humanities (SSH)
- Open Access Publishing by Geography
- North America
- Table OA Journal Revenue, Articles & Uptake by Geography, 2017
- Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- Rest of the World
- Table OA Article Authorship by Geography, 2017
- Language
Leading Open Access Journal Publishers
- Introduction
- Leading Open Access Journal Publishers
- Springer Nature
- Company Overview
- Table Leading OA Journal Publishers, Market Share, 2017
- Recent Company Performance
- Table Springer Nature OA Article Trends, 2013-2017
- Open Access Strategy
- Table Leading Open Access Journal Publishers' Revenue1, 2015-2017
- RELX
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- John Wiley & Sons
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- MDPI AG
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Hindawi
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Frontiers
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Wolters Kluwer
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Informa PLC
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- De Gruyter
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Mergers & Acquisitions in the OA Journal Market
- Table OA Journal Publishing M&A Activity, 2008-2018
Trends & Forecast
- Trends in Open Access Publishing
- Springer Nature's Megajournals Knock PLOS One off its Perch
- Black Open Access (Piracy) Dents Green & Gold Open Access
- Traditional Publishers Climbing OA Journal Market Share
- Librarians Complain Hybrid Journals Are Double Dipping
- Big Deals Incorporating Open Access Issues
- Institutional Memberships, Important to Some Publishers
- Open Access Journals Have Citation Impact
- The Number of Gold OA Articles Will Continue to Grow
- APCs Will Continue to Rise
- OA Mandates Will Be Enforced
- Support for Gold OA Works
- OA Publishers Continue to Address Peer Review Concerns
- More Journals Continue to Convert from Subscription to Open Access
- Table Open Access Journal Forecast by Metric, 2018-2022
- Open Access Publishing Forecast
- Introduction
- World Economy and Exchange Rates
- Forecast Leading Publishers
- Table Leading OA Journal Publishers Forecast, 2017-2018P
