Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand | Absolutely Maybe

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-01-18

Summary:

"This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable. When the year began, the world’s largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual profits, with an operating profit approaching US$1.2 billion in science, technology, and medicine – a profit margin of over 36%. [PDF] By year’s end, a hefty chunk of the world’s research community was walking away from big subscription deals with Elsevier and others.

That was a last resort after years of hard bargaining. While we could never be sure one or other side wouldn’t blink before it came to this, this didn’t seem to come out of the blue. What did, was a dramatic announcement from Europe in September that could usher in immediate open access to much publicly-funded research – not just after a one-year embargo....

Here are my month-by-month highlights of an action-packed year in open access to the scientific literature....."

Link:

https://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2019/01/17/open-access-2018-a-year-of-funders-and-universities-drawing-lines-in-the-sand/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.universities oa.funders oa.policies oa.elsevier oa.cancellations oa.plan_s oa.fees oa.no-fee oa.offsets oa.hei

Date tagged:

01/18/2019, 10:19

Date published:

01/18/2019, 05:19