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Walt
Crawford has done excellent work on OA-journals, DOAJ and especially on
Bealls list. He has published his works in his Cites and Insights –http://citesandinsights.info/.
As
to the question regarding “how many OA articles have been published with
no fee”, Walts data based on an analysis of articles published in 7.301
of the journals listed in DOAJ (journals without an English language
interface excluded (approx.. 2.800 journals) suggested that from 2012-2014
some 670.000 articles have been published in journals charging APCs (the
numbers do not tell anything about the volume of waivers)! Some 470.000
have been published in OA-journals charging no APCs. That is 60% with APCs
and 40% without APCs. Of the remaining 2.800 OA- journals from DOAJ not
included in Walts study approx.. 80% do not charge APCs.
Please
note that we are talking articles published in genuine OA-journals.
Articles published as Hybrid OA articles in subscription journals are out
of scope here.
Walts
works on Bealls list – Ethics and Access 1: The Sad Case of Jeffrey
Beall (http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i4.pdf)
and Journals, “Journals” and Wannabes: Investigating The List (http://citesandinsights.info/civ14i7.pdf)
– are really worth reading if you would like a more detailed look at the
list.
