STATEMENT [FROM THE] FIRST CONSORTIUM ASSEMBLY FROM IBERO-AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-09-12

Summary:

"We agree with the economic principle that states that the proposal OA2020 only seeks to change the nature of the market, which makes the inflation of the magazine’s price to be more likely, as the change to Open Access by charging APC “leaves out” the libraries from the game and leads the academics to confront big commercial editors. In this way, even if minor costs in magazines were produced, there are two additional dysfunctions in a complete APC model: the problem of perception and the seriousness of the preying magazines problem....

We agree that an OA expansion policy, through the payment of APC fees, is impossible to undertake from a financial point of view for the participant countries. To not create grants to pay a publication in OA-APC magazines is recommended to the institutions...."

Link:

http://reuniondeconsorcios.conricyt.mx/index.php/primera-reunion/declaraciones/?lang=en

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Tags:

oa.latin_america oa.economics_of oa.caribbean oa.fees oa.oa2020 oa.jussieu oa.no-fee oa.principles oa.declarations oa.recommendations oa.south

Date tagged:

09/12/2018, 10:25

Date published:

09/12/2018, 06:25