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2012
Open-Access
172
Revenue ((US$
US$ Million))
Growth Estimate
33.9%

2013

2014 ((P)
P)) 2015 ((F)
F)) 2016 ((F)
F)) 2017 ((F)
F))

252

290

335

46.8%

15.1%

15.5%

389

452

15.9% 16.1%

1.3%

3.1%

3.2%

3.6% 3.8%

4.1%

IEEE IP Revenue
7.7%
Growth Including OA

6.7%

4.9%

6.7%
(B)

TBD

Overall S&T
Publishing Growth
Including OA

50.0
45.0
40.0
35.0
30.0
25.0
20.0
15.0
10.0
5.0
0.0

(%)

500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0

TBD

OA Revenue from All Disciplines Shown in Millions of Dollars
OA Revenue Is Estimated as 4.3% of the Journals Market and 1.1% of the STM Market
FIgURE 9. The OA revenue forecast and growth 2012-2017.

Year

OA Journals
Full-OA Journals
Published by
Published by
Nonsubscription
Nonsubscription
Publishers (Mean) Publishers (Mean)

Hybrid Journals
Published by
Nonsubscription
Publishers (Mean)

2010

£1,141

£1,154

£1,842

2011

£1,281

£1,148

£1,905

2012

£1,227

£1,121

£1,873

2013

£1,106

£1,152

£1,857

2014

£1,068

£1,216

£1,799

Five Year
Mean

£1,136

£1,164

£1,849

US$1,723

US$2,737

IEEE Average APC from RCUK = £1,108 or US$1,640
£1 = US$1.48 as of 15 April 2015

FIgURE 10. The average APC by journal type. The average hybrid journal APCs are about
59% higher than average OA journal APCS from subscription publishers.

manuscripts are effectively subsidized
by the traditional subscription-only
closed-access content.
Against these challenging economic
realities for open-access publication, the
traditional subscription services grew
strongly and consistently during
2014-2015. In fact, this seems to be a
trend that is helping the for-profit publishers as the big companies aggressively
chase their future with significant ongoing
investments into new technology and new
journals in niche and emerging fields of
research. This annual PoE meeting provides an excellent forum for IEEE Publications staff to bring these concerns back
to our senior membership and engage
with them to seek out new ideas and
approaches to meet such challenges.

PRINT PERIODICALS PROJECT-
SURVEY RESULTS
There were several presentations dedicated to this large survey of IEEE readership
to establish patterns of access and preferences across many different use cases and
content types (Figure 11). One key question that I know will be in the minds of
many of you is that of printed versus electronic distribution of content.Well, there is
no simple, single answer. The best answer
is that some use cases lend themselves to
traditional print content, some are more
amenable to presentation and distribution
of electronic content, and other use cases
find both print and electronic content are
equally popular.
Rather than work through the many
findings of this survey, I will provide a
selection of the most important results
from the corresponding powerpoint slides.
If you really are excited about this survey, I
have a copy of the original presentation
available if you want to contact me directly.

STATUS OF PRINTED
IEEE PERIODICALS
MAIN SURVEY RESULTS

can be seen from Figure 10, is the fact
that article processing charges for
hybrid journals are typically 50-60%
higher than for open-access-only journals. Hybrid journals are those that
allow both conventional closed-access
publication of papers and articles
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combined with open-access publication
if the authors are willing to pay the corresponding charge.
The problem for the IEEE is that the
open-access charges are typically lower
than the actual costs for such hybrid
journals. In other words, the open-access

october 2015

BACK TO THE FUTURE-
IEEE XPLORE 2030
Another milestone was reached, 2015 is
the 15th birthday of IEEE Xplore. So, naturally, one of the main presentations took
a look back at the history of IEEE Xplore.
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - October 2015
