Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
The Biosciences Federation (BSF) is the body representing the UK’s leading biosciences learned societies
Following on from its position statement on open access (OA) and self archiving in September 20071, the BSF decided to undertake surveys of its member societies and of the individual researchers who belong to them
The objective was to analyse the experience of its member organizations with regard to their publishing activities, especially concerning open access and self archiving by authors, and to gather information on the financial contribution made by the societies to their disciplines
Summary
The Biosciences Federation (BSF) is the body representing the UK’s leading biosciences learned societies. Following on from its position statement on open access (OA) and self archiving in September 20071, the BSF decided to undertake surveys of its member societies and of the individual researchers who belong to them. The objective was to analyse the experience of its member organizations with regard to their publishing activities, especially concerning open access and self archiving by authors, and to gather information on the financial contribution made by the societies to their disciplines. There were 1,368 usable responses to this questionnaire These respondents belonged to a mean of 1.45 BSF member societies and to 1.83 societies in all. Of the 27 BSF members that publish journals, 23 responded to the questionnaire on financial issues; 17 of these (covering 39 journals) provided data usable for this report, not all provided answers to all questions. The responses represented the range of self publishing (3 societies), third-party publishing (12) and a mix of the two (2)
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