Sage open – a commercial publisher’s foray into open access for humanities and social science
1. SAGE Open – a commercial publisher’s
foray into Open Access for humanities and
social science
Jim Gilden
Editor, SAGE Open Sales
Rutgers
October 23, 2012
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2. ● Broad-based Social Science and Humanities Gold OA
(author pays) journal using the PLoSOne model
● Submissions first accepted in January 2011
● More than 1,200 submissions from 62 countries, 100s of
institutions including Rutgers, UC Berkeley, Harvard,
Stanford, Northeastern, NYU, Columbia, and others
● 119 articles published since launch in May 2011
● 116,859 full text downloads in 2011 through September
● On HighWire platform from Stanford University Libraries
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3. ● Peer reviewed – content is published based on soundness
of research
● No limitations on scope of journal or printed page budgets
● Fast publication – article goes online as soon as it has
been approved, no waiting for an issue
● CC-BY licensing model – author retains copyright
● Market leading discoverability provides for widest
dissemination of research
● Quality control – has the SAGE brand behind it
● Long-term preservation thru Portico and CLOCKSS
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6. Toll-free reference linking to other SAGE and
HighWire journals
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7. Submissions
Top Countries Top Subjects
United States 533 Education 254
India 74 Psychology 184
Canada 62 Sociology 116
Iran 47 Communication 107
Nigeria 44 Management 102
Australia 32 Political Science 101
Brazil 26 Criminology 51
Pakistan 26 Humanities 51
United Kingdom 26 Economics 49
Germany 17 Research Methods 27
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8. Acceptance Rates
# of
Decision Manuscripts % of Total
Accept 99 23%
Accept Pending
90 21%
Minor Revision
Immediate
36 8%
Reject
Major Revision 119 26%
Reject 92 22%
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9. Most-read articles through September 30
Loretta I. Winters, Paul C. Winters
Black Teenage Pregnancy: A Dynamic Social Problem
Read 7,140 times
Debra L. Truitt
The Effect of Training and Development on Employee Attitude as it Relates to
Training and Work Proficiency
Read 7,003 times
Harish Kumar Sharma
Stress and Relaxation in Relation to Personality
Read 5,855 times
Larry Friedlander
Friending the Virgin: Some Thoughts on the Prehistory of Facebook
Read 5,274 times
Harold Andrew Patrick, Vincent Raj Kumar
Managing Workplace Diversity: Issues and Challenges
Read 5,235 times
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10. Questions?
Thank you.
jim.gilden@sagepub.com
www.sageopen.com
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