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SAGE Open: a publisher’s foray into Gold OA for the social sciences and humanities
Jim GildenSenior Field EditorOpen Access WeekUniversity of Colorado, BoulderOctober 24, 2013
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SAGE Open: a publisher’s foray into Gold OA for the social sciences and humanities
● What is SAGE Open● Why we launched it● What challenges we’ve faced● The future of OA at SAGE
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● Broad-based Social Science and Humanities Gold OA journal using the PLOS One model
● Submissions first accepted in January 2011● More than 2,500 submissions from 62 countries,
100s of institutions including UC Boulder● 300+ articles published since launch in May 2011● 180,182 full text downloads in 2012● On HighWire platform from Stanford University
Libraries
What is SAGE Open
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Submissions by Discipline
Education 447
Psychology 310
Sociology 235
Management 185
Communication 184
Political Science 168
Humanities 114
Criminology 112
Economics 82
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Where are those articles?
● 2,419/3,063= 78.97% decided • 444 accepted • 671 rejected by AE after peer review • 80 desk rejected as inappropriate • 126 desk rejected for language • 1,098 given a major or minor revision decision• 274 withdrawn on author request
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Acceptance rates
Manuscript Decision Number of Manuscripts Percent
Accept 440 17.8%
Accept Pending Minor Revision 444 18.4%
Immediate Accept 4 0.2%
Immediate Reject 80 3.2%
Immediate Reject (language) 126 5.2%
Major Revision 654 27.2%
Reject 671 27.9%
Total 2,419 100.0%
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Most-read articles through Sept
1. Managing Workplace Diversity: Issues and Challenges (June 2012)
2. The Effect of Training and Development on Employee Attitude as it Relates to Training and Work Proficiency (Oct 2011)
3. Black Teenage Pregnancy: A Dynamic Social Problem (Jan 2012)
4. A Configuration Model of Organizational Culture (Jan 2012)
5. Maternal Enmeshment: The Chosen Child (Oct 2012)
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Most-read articles through Sept
1. Managing Workplace Diversity: Issues and Challenges (June 2012) - Read 30,100 times
2. The Effect of Training and Development on Employee Attitude as it Relates to Training and Work Proficiency (Oct 2011) – 20,140
3. Black Teenage Pregnancy: A Dynamic Social Problem (Jan 2012) – 14,578
4. A Configuration Model of Organizational Culture (Jan 2012) – 14,411
5. Maternal Enmeshment: The Chosen Child (Oct 2012) – 10,495
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Article level metrics
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Author feedback
● 64 respondents to standard survey● 73% said SAGE Open was their first choice● 88% said peer review comments were good or excellent ● 73% said time to pub from acceptance was good or
excellent● Comments
• The review process was a bit slow despite being an open journal• Publication fees could have been reduced• This is my first international paper and I’m delighted to publish with
SAGE
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Why launch SAGE Open?
● OA is going to be a part of the scholarly communication landscape
● SAGE’s strength and reputation in social sciences
● First in the water● Part of our mission to serve social science
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Challenges
● Marketing● Editorial● Back office● Pricing
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Challenges - Marketing
• HSS less familiar with Open Access• Perception of pay to play• Spam from less reputable publishers• Concerns about reputation of journal, peer review
process• Pricing and payment – no tradition of including
pages charges in grants
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Challenges - Editorial
● Tenure committee “doesn’t count” OA publications
● Peer review• Broad scope• Open access still less known in HSS
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Challenges – Back office
● Technology• Continuous publication• Competitive bells and whistles
● Systems• Subscription vast majority of transactions take
place electronically• Open Access is about the article, not about the
journal
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Challenges - Pricing
• $695• $195• $395• $99
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The future of OA at SAGE
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Launching 40 journals in 2014
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Questions?
Thank you.
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