INTERPRETATION IV: Romeo is biased, at least as non-Angloamerican
publishers/journals are concerned ;-) -- in a way I would expect similar
results for a German survey ...
Liebe Katjachen, Romeo is definitely biassed toward the international journal publishers, and those in turn are biassed toward English (So is ISI, Google Scholar, and, for that matter, science itself.) I too would be more chuffed if the language of science were my native Hungarian, or, failing that, the language of Goethe or of Moličre. But doesn't the simple, feasible task of providing 100% OA -- already long overdue because fettered for a decade with irrelevant distractions and deterrents -- have enough on its plate already without having to re-direct western european history too? And did I not say (in Interpretation II) that I suspect that national (as opposed to international) journals, whether non-English or English, would show the same parochial effect (of retarded consciousness and under-informedness about OA, and jingoistic defensiveness and protectionism about its national journals, foolishly misdirected toward opposing self-archiving instead of embracing it, which would be what was really in the national interest!)? Tschuess, Stevan