Will Europe Lead a Global Flip to Open Access? - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-06-27

Summary:

"From a distance, you might think that journal publishers should be celebrating their success in Europe. They are being offered the open access (OA) crown, locking in OA contracts and article flows. But, European policy targets are adding complexity. The emergent problem is straightforward: there appears to be no realistic path forward that achieves the 2020 OA targets without resulting in substantial revenue reductions for existing publishers. Will Europe miss its OA target? Or will publishers miss their revenue targets?..."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/06/26/will-europe-lead-open-access/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » ab1630's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.europe oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.progress oa.policies oa.oa2020 oa.economic_impact oa.economics_of oa.implementation oa.conversions oa.revenues

Date tagged:

06/27/2018, 14:47

Date published:

07/18/2018, 05:41