Authors have the power, let them use it: rebuttal to David Shulenburger – madLibbing

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Summary:

"In July 2016, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) published an article it requested from David Shulenburger, an economist and senior fellow at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).[1] In this article Dr. Shulenburger argues that flipping scholarly publishing of journal articles from a post-publication, subscription-based business model to a pre-publication, article-processing-charge model would make things worse: that is, lead to higher, not lower payments to publishers (and higher resulting profits for them).

Dr. Shulenberger recommends the right approach to the question — examining supply and demand conditions after a flip. However, he makes a fundamental error in his analysis, and as a result, reaches the wrong conclusion.  Following standard economic logic (as he recommends) leads to the opposite conclusion: a flip to an APC-based system would most likely lower the payments to publishers...."

Link:

https://madlibbing.berkeley.edu/authors-have-the-power-let-them-use-it-rebuttal-to-david-shulenburger/

Updated:

07/08/2021, 11:10

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Tags:

oa.authors oa.conversions oa.gold oa.fees oa.prices oa.markets oa.predictions oa.objections oa.debates oa.economics_of oa.journals

Date tagged:

07/08/2021, 15:10

Date published:

09/25/2016, 11:10