SCOAP3 and Pre-Emptive Gold Fever (Open Access)
Amsciforum 2013-03-10
Summary:
SSCOAP3 is a consortium of subscribing institutions trying to negotiate prices under the notion of a "Pre-Emptive Gold OA 'Flip' Model": http://bit.ly/7QfRO But the "model" -- pre-emptive consortial price negotiations with multiple vendors for agreeing the price of an annual renewable joint prepayment -- is incoherent and unscaleable, for reasons that have by now been many times rehearsed in these pages (but have yet to be reflected upon by those who are afflicted with this form of Gold Fever). http://bit.ly/9o5Vs