Before I go into editing mode (the text for the LTR; I've already made changes in many of the tables and figures), I really should credit the three folks who reviewed the draft and provided ****VERY***** helpful comments and suggestions, resulting in (I'd guess) larger changes to the ms. than they might have expected.
Just as examples: grade "B" because of $1,000+ APCs is now grade "A$" (I've been public about that one); four APC levels for a summary table are now based on actual quartiles of APC-carrying DOAJ journals; I'll find a way to avoid four bullet points beginning with spelled-out numbers...and more, both layout-related and content-related.
- walt crawford
I believe it will be a significantly stronger/better publication as a result of their help. Thanks, Stephanie, John and Cameron. (Oh, and Cameron, sorry, but you won't get histograms, for a couple of reasons, one of them being lack of color printing. You will get an asterisk and footnote for each 2014 half-year article count column.)
- walt crawford