Scientific journals are (still) getting (more) expensive (than ever) — Shorthand Social

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-06-09

Summary:

"...Despite the awareness around the issue, universities are still spending increasingly more for their access to scholarly journals. Following many arduous, time-consuming Freedom of Information requests to most universities in Britain, it turns out that not much has changed since the Finch report of 2012. At the time, Paul Harwood did think this government report would be a decisive turn towards Open Access publishing in the UK. Yet, his perception was short-lived, as we are now in 2018 and many institutional libraries are still increasing their expenditures for their access to documents that are not officially available elsewhere. Harwood has been in the business of academic publishing for three decades now, either on the librarian side or as an intermediary agent between libraries and publishers. It is fair to say that the now associate director at Oxford Brookes University knows a great deal about the sector. “I’m quite attentive at what is happening right now in the UK”, says Paul, whose team has also been managing my greedy, rookie FOI request. “I am not part of that and I don’t know how it will go, but I imagine if you’re JISC and you are negotiating with one of those big publishers, you’re mindful of what has happened in France, Germany and Sweden....”

Link:

https://social.shorthand.com/stevecarufel_/j2bOadiRji/scientific-journals-are-still-getting-more-expensive-than-ever

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » ab1630's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.prices oa.budgets oa.trends oa.uk oa.hei oa.publishers oa.profits oa.metrics oa.taxpayers oa.authors oa.prestige oa.blockchain oa.journals

Date tagged:

06/09/2018, 15:22

Date published:

06/09/2018, 11:25