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In today's global market, it's more important than ever to understand the changing dynamics of academic publishing. Rely on Simba Information's Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 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 2015 and market projections through 2020. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for scholarly and professional publishing.
Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 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 profile of the top ten open access repositories
- 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 2020 and more
Publishers and investment professionals can trust Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 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 future of open access megajournals
- The impact of open access in social science and humanities
- Examination of green, gold and hybrid models
- Open access, peer review and questions of credibility
- The impact on smaller publishers
- Long-term implications for costs across the OA ecosystem
Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 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
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Open Access Publishing Market
- Introduction
- Origins of a Movement
- Timeline
- Open Access Definitions & Publishing Models
- Open Access Journals
- Gold
- Green
- Hybrid
- Megajournals
- Article Processing Charges
- Other Sources of Support for OA Articles
- The Open Access Ecosystem
- Public Funding Agencies
- National Institutes of Health
- Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020
- European Research Council
- Research Councils UK
- The Wellcome Trust
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Institutional Mandates
- Market Size
- APC Journals Revenue
- Other Journals OA Revenue
- Other Measures of Market Size
- Open Access by Discipline
- Medical
- Scientific & Technical
- Social Science & Humanities
- Open Access by Geography
- North America
- Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- Rest of World
- Language
- Table 1.1: Timeline of Open Access Publishing, 2000-2004
- Table 1.2: Timeline of Open Access Publishing, 2005-2012
- Table 1.3: Timeline of Open Access Publishing, 2013-2016
- Table 1.4: Open Access Publishing Market, Various Metrics, 2013-2015
Chapter 2: Leading Open Access Journal Publishers & Repositories _ 21
- Introduction
- Leading Open Access Publishers
- Springer Nature
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Publishing Strategy
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)
- Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020
- Competitor Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- John Wiley & Sons
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Hindawi
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- REXL Group/Elsevier
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Holtzbrinck (including Frontiers)
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- MDPI AG
- Competitor Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Wolters Kluwer (including Medknow)
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Informa Cogent
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Oxford University Press
- Competitor Overview
- Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020
- Recent Company Performance
- Open Access Strategy
- Others in the Hunt
- Open Access Repositories (Green Archives) & Other Platforms
- Academia.edu
- arXiv
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CiteSeerX
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
- PubMed Central
- Redalyc
- ResearchGate
- SciELO
- SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network)
- Mergers & Acquisitions in Open Access Publishing Market
- Table 2.1: Leading Open Access Publishers Share, 2015
- Table 2.2: Leading Open Access Publishers, 2013-2015
- Table 2.3: Notable Open Access Repositories
- Table 2.4: Notable Open Access Publishing M&A Activity
- 2008 - 2016
Chapter 3: Issues Facing Open Access Journal Publishing & Forecast
- Introduction
- Issues Facing Open Access Publishing
- Open Access Business Practices Continue to Evolve
- APC Pricing Is an Issue for Editorial Boards
- The Librarian Complaint Is Double Dipping
- Despite Objections, APCs Will Continue to Rise
- Leading OA Publishers Branded as Predatory
- Every OA Publisher Has Faced a Credibility Problem
- Peer Review Is a Particular Target for Criticism
- Some Publishers Work Towards Greater Transparency
- Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020
- Going OA Is Not a Magic Bullet
- Major Publishers Have the Potential of Transforming OA Publishing
- More Journals Are Being Converted from Subscription to Open Access
- Has Megajournals Growth Stalled?
- Open Access Publishing Forecast
- Introduction
- World Economy & Exchange Rates
- Open Access Will Capture a Significant Share of Emerging Market Research
- Authors Will Better Understand the Good & Bad of OA Journals
- Mandates Will Increase & They Will Work
- OA Articles Published Per Year Will Continue to Grow
- The Humanities & Social Sciences Will Be Accommodated
- APCs Will Continue to Rise
- Forecast of Leading Publishers
- Table 3.1: Open Access Market Forecast, Various Metrics, 2016P-2020P
- Table 3.2: Leading Open Access Publishers, 2015-2016P
