Open and Shut?: Emerald Group Publishing tests ZEN, increases prices: what does it mean?

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-23

Summary:

Given this background, I was intrigued by a recent news item on Library Journal’s infoDOCKET reporting that Emerald has decided to undertake what it calls a Zero Embargo trial. The trial, which will involve 21 Library and Information Science and Information and Knowledge Management journals, will allow researchers submitting to these journals (even if the author is subject to an OA mandate) to deposit the post-print versions of their articles “into their respective institutional repository immediately upon official publication, rather than after Emerald’s 24 month embargo period for mandated articles”. It is an interesting development. But what impact is it likely to have?  ... What Emerald has not been trumpeting, however, is that it is simultaneously increasing the article-processing charge of 32 Engineering and Technology journals, from £995 ($1,595), to £1,650 ($2,695) per paper — a rise of nearly 70% ..."

Link:

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2015/07/emerald-group-publishing-tests-zen.html

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Tags:

oa.emerald

Date tagged:

07/23/2015, 08:02

Date published:

07/23/2015, 04:02