Big Deal journal bundles: price information from New Zealand | Filling a much-needed gap

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-12-03

Summary:

"In 2014 Timothy Gowers and others used Freedom of Information laws to extract the relevant price information from UK universities. See here for more detailed information. Earlier (2009), less extensive, work in the USA  had also been done by Ted Bergstrom and others. Inspired by this, I tried the same thing in New Zealand (for 7 of the 8 universities – representing around 8400 academic/research staff and 130000 students, so far (Lincoln University, very much smaller than the others, was omitted owing to an oversight). Whereas Gowers was able to obtain the requested information within a few weeks, it has taken me 3.5 years. In both countries universities originally refused to release the information. However, in the UK there is an automatic right of review of such decisions, undertaken by an academic. In NZ, no such right exists...."

Link:

https://mcw.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2017/12/03/big-deal-journal-bundles-price-information-from-new-zealand/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.big_deals oa.prices oa.new_zealand oa.libraries oa.foi oa.budgets oa.fair oa.fees

Date tagged:

12/03/2017, 10:38

Date published:

12/03/2017, 05:38