Researchers Are Pushing Back Against Elsevier's Open-Access Publishing Fees - The Atlantic

Delicious/sc.at.neu/openaccess 2016-01-27

Summary:

"Imagine you’ve spent the last few years writing a manuscript. You submit it to a publisher, and they make you an offer: They’ll print it, but once it’s published, they own your work. They’ll sell it to people who want to read it, but you won’t see any of the profits. Alternatively, if you pay the publisher to print your work, they’ll release it to the public for free.   These are the options for academics publishing their research in mainstream journals—but that’s begun to change over the past several years, as academics have started to push more strongly for better options. The latest effort is taking shape in the cognitive-science community, where a group of researchers are petitioning the publishing giant Elsevier to lower fees to publish open-access papers in Cognition, a well-regarded journal. Cognition is one of Elsevier’s 1,800 hybrid open-access journals, meaning authors have the traditional option of publishing their paper behind a paywall, or paying a $2,150 article-processing charge (APC) to make their article freely available to the public. The petition, led by the Cognition editorial-board member David Barner, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and the Harvard professor Jesse Snedeker, calls on Elsevier to figure out a way to  'significantly lower fees.' (The petition did not specify an exact figure.) In less than a week, the petition racked up signatures from more than 1,200 people, including Noam Chomsky and at least 10 members of Cognition’s editorial board ..."

Link:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/elsevier-academic-publishing-petition/427059/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.elsevier oa.hybrid oa.fees oa.prices oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.economics_of oa.advocacy oa.petitions oa.signatures

Date tagged:

01/27/2016, 08:58

Date published:

01/27/2016, 03:58