sage open – a commercial publisher’s foray into open access for humanities and social science
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From Jim Gilden's presentation on SAGE Open as part of Rutgers University’s extensive Open Access Week Activities, Tuesday 23, October.TRANSCRIPT
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SAGE Open – a commercial publisher’s foray into Open Access for humanities and social science
Jim GildenEditor, SAGE Open SalesRutgers October 23, 2012
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● 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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● 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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Toll-free reference linking to other SAGE and HighWire journals
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Submissions
Top Countries
United States 533
India 74
Canada 62
Iran 47
Nigeria 44
Australia 32
Brazil 26
Pakistan 26
United Kingdom 26
Germany 17
Top Subjects
Education 254
Psychology 184
Sociology 116
Communication 107
Management 102
Political Science 101
Criminology 51
Humanities 51
Economics 49
Research Methods 27
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Acceptance Rates
Decision# of
Manuscripts % of TotalAccept 99 23%Accept Pending Minor Revision 90 21%
Immediate Reject 36 8%
Major Revision 119 26%
Reject 92 22%
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Most-read articles through September 30
Loretta I. Winters, Paul C. WintersBlack Teenage Pregnancy: A Dynamic Social ProblemRead 7,140 times
Debra L. TruittThe Effect of Training and Development on Employee Attitude as it Relates
to Training and Work ProficiencyRead 7,003 times
Harish Kumar SharmaStress and Relaxation in Relation to PersonalityRead 5,855 times
Larry FriedlanderFriending the Virgin: Some Thoughts on the Prehistory of FacebookRead 5,274 times
Harold Andrew Patrick, Vincent Raj KumarManaging Workplace Diversity: Issues and ChallengesRead 5,235 times
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