Die Kosten des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens | Telepolis

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-22

Summary:

[From Google's English] "Information on some high open-access fees provided as open data, the costs for magazine subscriptions, however, remain transparent How much money to pay for subscriptions universities academic publishers of scientific journals, is a well-kept secret in most countries. Information obtained in Germany alone from the German Library Statistics - but only as a total expenditure of a university library for all purchased from her journals and not broken down to individual publishers or journals. It is no different in Switzerland, where Christian Gutknecht by the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (SNF) last month it failed to bring information to the payments for magazine subscriptions to academic libraries of Switzerland in experience - and that despite a well-documented undeniable tenacity. This kind of information is difficult to access because most libraries sign in subscribing, also known as subscription scientific journals or eBooks confidentiality obligations. Anyone who violates these agreements, the result in a substantial penalties. This practice, however, prevents scientists can check the cost of acquisition of literature, thus reducing the likelihood that they deal critically with the financial flows in the subscription or subscription model. Curiously, we find here that is a double funding from the public sector: It finances scientific research, where it operates, universities and non-university research institutes and salaries of scientists, their travel costs, offices, laboratory equipment and the entire infrastructure funding required by researchers for their work. The results of the work are as texts, mostly journal articles, published - because without publication of research exists not really, at least they would be unpublished scientific value. The preparation of the article, but also the assessment and editorial work as editor do scientists usually to be part of their publicly funded activities and without paid by the scientific publishers for it. The publishers but in turn sell them, they mostly free content made available to libraries but entertain themselves by the public sector. This is charged so that the production of scientific texts and redeems them from the scholarly publishers in addition, they financed the publications therefore several times. This nonsensical under finance point of procedure yielded and still provides one of the arguments in favor of the subscription model conflicting Open Access ..."

Link:

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/43/43350/1.html

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oa.github oa.data oa.fees oa.gold oa.policies oa.funders oa.dfg oa.universities oa.switzerland oa.germany oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.new ru.sparc oa.hei oa.journals

Date tagged:

11/22/2014, 18:36

Date published:

11/22/2014, 11:58