'A broken model' | Research Information

"How do researchers and libraries benefit from the Glasstree model?

To put it simply, the platform puts academics, institutions and their vital research first, helping them to regain control and advance important work. To ensure we’re listening to our audience, Glasstree recently conducted a survey in which 300 academics and educators participated, with more than 80 per cent stating that they were dissatisfied with the poor level of control that they have over the publishing process and 83 per cent agreeing that traditional academic publishing needs to change.  This is because traditional author book royalties currently stand at under 10 per cent whereas, by using Glasstree, authors and institutions can earn up to 70 per cent of the profits from book sales, helping them to continue and fund vital research. With regards to timescales, via traditional routes, work can often take years to be published, yet on Glasstree, the same objective can be achieved in anything from 15 minutes to three months, depending on the scale of the project.  The platform also benefits the new generation of students and academics in education, as purchasing textbooks via Glasstree is significantly less expensive than through traditional publishers and their distribution channels (according to the US  Bureau of Economic Analysis, in the US, the cost of a college textbook has increased by more than 1000 per cent since 1974, and 73 per cent since 2006)."