Large sums are going from research to publishers instead of being used to further research – What can we do about it? | Stockholm University Press Blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-12-16

Summary:

"'Christmas is over' is part of the title of a statement from LERU (League of European Research Universities). Here, LERU laments the large sums going from research to publishers instead of being used to further research. It is difficult to disagree with LERU in that this situation, where publishers reap huge profits from selling science’s own work back to science, represents a problem for science. And a statement pointing to this problem is, of course, one small step towards rectifying it. An unacknowledged problem will stay unsolved. But how have publishers managed to get this stranglehold on science? At the root of the problem lies how science evaluates research and researchers It is a well-known fact that when evaluating applications for positions, for promotion and for funding, the prestige of the journals in which the applicant has published is used as a proxy for the quality of the research published. And for 'prestige', read 'Impact Factor' (IF), at least in the fields where most major journals have an IF ..."

Link:

http://blog.stockholmuniversitypress.se/2015/12/15/large-sums-are-going-from-research-to-publishers-instead-of-being-used-to-further-research-what-can-we-do-about-it/

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oa.new oa.comment oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.economics_of oa.impact oa.jif oa.prestige oa.metrics

Date tagged:

12/16/2015, 08:31

Date published:

12/16/2015, 03:31