Robinson sage open uksg presentation

Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DC

Open Access Journal Publishing in the Social Sciences

Lesson learned and questions answered

Lucy Robinson, Executive Publisher

Open Access and SAGE Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DC

In this session..


First, a little about me..

● Editorial● Nearly two decades● 150 to over 700 journals● Print to online● The journal to the article● Single to bundle subscriptions, to author pays


SAGE and Open Access


Why SAGE Open?

● Dramatic growth in OA market● World’s leading Social Science publisher● The first HSS “mega journal” ● Supporting and nurturing interdisciplinary research● The Campaign for Social Science and social science research● Independent – long term view, the HSS funding challenge● Premier destination for high quality OA research in HSS


What APC in HSS?

$195 $395

$99SAGE Open survey: Over 70% constituted personal payments


$ Price point monthly submissions data


SAGE Open: Facts and stats

● Open for submissions end of 2010● Launched April 2011 with 6 papers● Over 1700 submissions from 78 countries to date● 1500 projected submissions in 2013● 185 articles published to date● Nearly 300,000 Downloads


Published articles to date..


The challenge of HSS OA infancy..


Lessons in revisions and decisions..


How many Editors & Reviewers?


Marketing SAGE Open


Lessons in marketing SAGE Open..


Who are our authors?


What do we know about them?


What do we know about them? (cont.)


Are we succeeding in being “full spectrum”?


Top subjects for submissions


What about our readers?

Source Visits Pages/Visit1 online.sagepub.com 8,031 2.952 sagepub.com 3,548 4.033 surveys.sagepublications.com 3,506 3.254 sageopen.com 3,224 3.065 facebook.com 2,341 2.486 uk.sagepub.com 2,046 3.397 highwire.stanford.edu 1,496 3.518 36ohk6dgmcd1n-c.c.yom.mail.yahoo.net 1,076 3.19 as.exeter.ac.uk 1,032 2.73

10 t.co [twitter] 864 1.92


Platform analytics and Future Development


Visitor Flows..

● 47% start with content page

● 38% start with home page

● 72% drop off after start page


SAGE Open todaySJ Nav

SAGE Open Nav

Comments & Ratings

Related Content

Social Share

Article usage

Email Share

AlertsRelated Content

Citation download

Alerts

Submissions

One click keyword search


Feature and Usability Findings..

● On Journal Home Page• About, Subject browse, Latest Articles• Most Read, and Most Cited

● On Article Home Page• Majority go to content and leave• Subject browse, and Home on nav• Most used features are Email, Usage Statistics, and

Citation Manager• Little interest in comments and star rankings


Wireframe Option 2


Thanks for listenening..

Questions?

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Robinson sage open uksg presentation