The ‘pay-to-publish’ model should be abolished | Notes and Records

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-10-07

Summary:

"I argue that the ‘pay-to-publish and read-for-free’ model (hereafter ‘pay-to-publish’ model) has far more serious problems. Including publication costs within research grants is being widely advocated and implemented but it seems to be not so widely recognized that funders still pay twice—first to produce the research and then to publish it, and profits still go largely to commercial publishers. Since funders pay twice in the old model and continue to pay twice in the new model, one might be tempted to think that at least the new model is not any worse than the old one. But it is much worse, for at least two reasons."

Link:

http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2016/08/11/rsnr.2016.0039

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.prices oa.publishing oa.growth oa.comment oa.fees oa.costs oa.negative oa.south oa.obstacles oa.publishers oa.credibility oa.revenues

Date tagged:

10/07/2016, 15:46

Date published:

10/07/2016, 11:46