Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences A SAGE Perspective David Ross, Executive Publisher – Open Access

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC SAGE ●Founded almost 50 years ago (anniversary is 2015) ●First journal Urban Affairs Quarterly launched in September 1965 (now Urban Affairs Review) ●Predominatetely HSS publisher – 481 journals and 800 books a year (221 STM journals) ●Publish journals on behalf of 300 learned societies ●Still wholly owned by founder and chairperson – Sara Miller McCune ●Independent – will eventually transfer into the hands of an charitable trust – takes a long term view

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC SAGE and Open Access

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Why SAGE Open? ●Leading Social Science publisher ●Supporting and nurturing interdisciplinary research ●Campaign for Social Science and social science research ●Independent – long term view, the HSS funding challenge ●The first HSS “mega journal” - premier destination for high quality OA research in HSS

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC SAGE Open: Facts and stats ●Open for submissions end of 2010 ●Launched April 2011 with 6 papers ●Over 2100 submissions from 93 countries to date ●>1500 projected submissions in 2013 ●340 articles published to date ●Nearly 300,000 Downloads

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Published articles

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC What APC in HSS? $195$395$99 SAGE Open survey: Over 70% constituted personal payments

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Monthly submissions data

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC How many Editors & Reviewers? 24,641 registered reviewers 6,230 invited to review 3,167 reviewed 12,748 invited article editors 1,723 agreed article editors

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Where are our authors?

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC What do we know about them?

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC What do we know about them? (cont.)

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC 97% would publish in SAGE Open again Overall satisfaction level of your experience publishing with SAGE 76%-100%73% 51%-75%23% 0%-50%4% 71% of respondents said SAGE Open was their first choice

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Top considerations for submitting: ●SAGE’s reputation ●Subject fit ●Quality of previously published authors or papers ●Internationality of journal

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Are we succeeding in being “full spectrum”?

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Top subjects for submissions

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC What about our readers?

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Visitor Flows ●47% start with content page ●38% start with home page ●72% drop off after start page

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Citations ●Total Cited SAGE Open Articles:40 ●SAGE Open Articles cited by ISI ranked journals:13 ●Total Citations:61 ●Citations by ranked journals: 17 ●Most citations of one article: 7

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC The challenge of OA in HSS

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Lessons in revisions and decisions..

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC SAGE Open Rejection Rate

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Differences in HSS ●Selection Mechanisms Different ●Intellectual Property is the idea ●Research output in form of an article is different ●Immediacy not so crucial

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Conclusions ●SAGE Open is establishing a reputation ●Shown there is demand for broad spectrum multidisciplinary journal ●Difference disciplines present different challenges ●Drivers for OA not the same in HSS

Open Access and SAGE – COASP 19 th Sept, 2013 Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC Thank You