Hi James,
"Majority" is a little contested (it depends whether you count all the hybrid titles, and that's a different digression), but the fact that a lot of journals do not charge APCs is fairly well understood. Discounting the complicated issue of hybrids, Walt Crawford found last year that 74% of DOAJ listed journals were free, but they published only 43% of the papers overall. http://citesandinsights.info/civ15i9.pdf
Basically, the OA journals make a classic long-tail. The megajournals at one end (PLOS, Scientific Reports, etc) all charge. They publish a *lot*. Many of the middling journals charge. Then the majority of journals are the ones that publish a handful of papers a year, and these are the ones which are most likely to have no publication charges. They are more common in humanities/social science fields and often tend to be lower-profile, niche, or regional.
So, the majority of journals do not levy a charge; the majority of journals only publish a minority of papers; the majority of papers involve a charge; many individuals will never notice a non-charging journal.
Andrew.
On 8 May 2016 at 22:56, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
@ Andrew per "The majority of OA journals do not charge publication fees" Which ones are you thinking of?
The entire PLOS family charges, so does JMIR. Not sure if I have come across one that has no attached fees. Some will waive fees in specific circumstances but that is very different than no fees generally.
Best James
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 8 May 2016 at 21:51, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Yes there are more than 10,000 open access journals. Ours are different
in
that we do not charge the authors fees for publication. I am not sure of another OA journal like this.
The majority of OA journals do not charge publication fees to authors. (They only represent a minority of articles published - they tend to include the smaller ones).
I would agree that there is no shortage of journals in the world.
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