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GROWING... • the Number of OA Academic Peer-Reviewed Books Listed in the DOAB Has Increased by More Than 50% Over the Last Year (March 2015 – March 2016) Open access in the humanities and social sciences Recent trends indicate an increase in HSS scholars publishing OA - want to know why? WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS? TYPES OF OPEN ACCESS... GOLD GREEN Free, unrestricted online access to scholarly research. • Articles freely available • Articles or book chapters are immediately upon publication on a made available by archiving publisher’s website in an institutional or subject repository Funders, institutions and • No embargo period governments supported the • Typically a fee called an Article • Embargo periods may apply, widespread dissemination and Processing Charge is charged to depending on the publisher’s accessibility of research. authors to cover the publishing costs self-archiving policy. • HSS saw a greater year-on-year % increase in the number of fully OA journals compared to STM OPEN ACCESS IS (20% vs 9%) • Studies show year-on-year increases in the number of fully open access HSS journals and articles GROWING... • The number of OA academic peer-reviewed books listed in the DOAB has increased by more than 50% over the last year (March 2015 – March 2016) 16,000 15.9% 14,000 14.4% 12,000 FACT 10,000 The number of fully 8.5% 8,000 12,183 11,831 7.3% open access active HSS 6,000 journals listed in Scopus has risen from 564 in 4,000 7,228 7,120 2014, to 676 in 2015, an 2,000 increase of 20%. 2,051 2,230 0 564 676 #HSS Journals #STM Journals % Fully OA #HSS Journals #STM Journals % Fully OA FEB 2014 FEB 2015 # Fully OA #Not fully OA % HSS OA % STM OA Source: Scopus 2015-2015 BENEFITS OF OPEN ACCESS AND IMPORTANCE TO HSS: Increased Increased Compliance Greater Wider citations and Faster with funder interdisciplinary impact public collaboration usage mandates engagement conversation WHY PUBLISH WITH PALGRAVE OPEN? As an active participant in the development of sustainable models for open access within the humanities and social sciences (HSS), Palgrave Macmillan offers REPUTATION QUALITY DISCOVERABILITY open access options across all All works published open access Comprehensive and Inclusion in leading publication formats: journal articles, are delivered to the same rigorous peer review abstracting and indexing high standards as all Palgrave services books/monographs and pivots. Macmillan publications HSS: changing perceptions on open access 1 FUNDING Source: Springer Nature open access funding database Funding is the number • Over 40 research one reason authors give funders make OA funding Europe: available to researchers for not publishing OA. 93 USA: • Over 100 institutions 53 Asia: make funding available 1 to researchers Did you know? There are over 150 journal • Over 60 further open access article institutions distribute Australia: open access block processing charge (APC) 4 funds available to HSS grants on behalf of researchers world wide. funding bodies The number of funders and institutions worldwide that make funding FACT available for APCs has increased by 10% since the beginning of 2015. A number of research funders and institutions now make funding available to support OA monographs. The Palgrave Macmillan funding support service can provide personal advice on what OA monograph funding is available to you. Did you know? 2 CHOICE OF LICENCE 3 QUALITY OF OA CC Palgrave Macmillan offers a free OA Palgrave publishes work under a CC-BY All research published via Palgrave Open is support service that helps authors licence (favoured by the majority of funders) subject to the same rigorous peer-review to discover and apply for APC - authors retain copyright and this licence processes, and undergoes copyediting and funding. To find out more, contact: permits responsible re-use provided original proofreading. [email protected] work is credited. Other licenses are available on request. TIMELINE OF OPEN ACCESS AT PALGRAVE MACMILLAN JUN JAN NOV JUL OCT JAN 2011 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 Open access available across 18 The open access option The first open The first ‘hybrid’ The first open Palgrave Communications, academic titles; today the portfolio was expanded to access monograph open access access Palgrave the first fully open access has expanded to include over 40 include monographs was published. chapter was Pivot was multidisciplinary journal journals with an open access option. and Palgrave Pivots. published. published. was launched. Publishing your next book open access Palgrave Communications • All Palgrave open access books adhere to the rigorous peer review process Palgrave Macmillan is renowned for • Multi- and interdisciplinary • High visibility • Authors pay a Book Processing Charge, which is usually • Fast publication paid by research funders • 100+ expert editorial board members • As with journal articles all open access book content is • HIgh quality and rigorous peer review made freely available immediately upon publication • Online-only publication FACT • Print copies are available “For anyone working in a cross-disciplinary, policy-relevant field, Palgrave Communications is an ideal open on demand for those On average Palgrave access platform from which to engage fellow scholars, and also the wider worlds of policy and practice.” who wish to purchase OA books receive 8 times the usage of the research in hard copy non OA books Professor James Wilsdon, University of Sheffield and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science, UK Visit the Palgrave Open website for more information on open access publishing at Palgrave, benefits to authors and how we can help you with funding queries. .
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