Inefficient publishing industry costs us billions. Unrealized opportunities cost us much more.

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-14

Summary:

"Almost 20 years since Budapest Open Access Initiative, library consortia are finally leading the move with large scale journal cancellations. Editors can preserve and improve journal’s reputation and quality by changing to fairer and better services.

The new Plan S initiative by major national research funding agencies declares paywalled publishing venues unsuitable for their funded researchers. Still room is left for pay-to-publish barriers, where numerous problems have been documented.

Both initiatives still affect only tiny fractions of global academic publishing and we are currently very far from a large scale transition to cheaper more efficient models allowed by available technologies...."

Link:

https://medium.com/@dmitri145/inefficient-publishing-industry-costs-us-billions-unrealized-opportunities-cost-us-much-more-874e505eefdb

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Tags:

oa.publishing oa.economics_of oa.new oa.business_models oa.fees oa.monopoly oa.quality oa.taxpayers oa.south oa.fair oa.cancellations oa.plan_s oa.recommendations

Date tagged:

10/14/2018, 13:21

Date published:

10/14/2018, 09:21