Open access: The true cost of science publishing : Nature News & Comment

AThomas's bookmarks 2018-08-28

Summary:

"... But publishers of subscription journals insist that such views are misguided — born of a failure to appreciate the value they add to the papers they publish, and to the research community as a whole. They say that their commercial operations are in fact quite efficient, so that if a switch to open-access publishing led scientists to drive down fees by choosing cheaper journals, it would undermine important values such as editorial quality.

These charges and counter-charges have been volleyed back and forth since the open-access idea emerged in the 1990s, but because the industry's finances are largely mysterious, evidence to back up either side has been lacking. Although journal list prices have been rising faster than inflation, the prices that campus libraries actually pay to buy journals are generally hidden by the non-disclosure agreements that they sign. And the true costs that publishers incur to produce their journals are not widely known."

Link:

https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676

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oa.costs oa.journals oa.fees oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.stem oa.business_models oa.sustainability oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

08/28/2018, 06:02

Date published:

08/28/2018, 02:02