What is the Price to Pay for Sci-Hub’s “Free” Articles

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-08

Summary:

"Costs can include those associated with building and maintaining a Web-based system that lets authors submit their papers at any time, Zappulla notes. There are also content management systems that keep track of articles as they’re submitted, peer-reviewed, and revised to provide critical feedback to authors and further the scholarly publishing process. Copy editing, text formatting, and graphics processing take place before a manuscript is finally published and uploaded to a digital library.

“Whether they are on the Web or in print, authors still want their articles to be easily discovered and read and to look good,” Zappulla says. “None of that is without cost.”

And for IEEE there’s the cost of keeping its platform, the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, running at the state of the art.

Added to those investments is the cost of archiving the material to “ensure the content will be available for posterity, no matter what happens,” Guida says. “The costs of continuing to create and develop the outstanding scholarly journals that IEEE and other STM publishers have introduced over the years must be covered.” Revenue from traditional subscriptions pays for those services, Zappulla says...."

Link:

http://theinstitute.ieee.org/blogs/blog/scihubs-free-articles-are-anything-but-free

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oa.new oa.sci-hub oa.copyright oa.ieee oa.economics_of oa.costs oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

12/08/2018, 11:22

Date published:

12/08/2018, 06:22