Mandating sustainability. Would Elsevier survive?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Comment: if universities are considering mandates and economic sustainability for scholarly publishing, why not include a mandate supporting economically sustainable publications / publishers? For example, why not direct tenure and promotion committees to give added weight to affordable / open access publishing choices, if an author indicates that they have rejected high cost / poor access choices? Would Elsevier survive such a mandate? ..."

Link:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/06/mandating-sustainability-would-elsevier.html

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.comment oa.mandates oa.elsevier oa.policies

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 13:25

Date published:

06/27/2011, 21:58