”Vi vill få ner kostnaderna för publiceringar” | Tidningen Curie

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-05-04

Summary:

From Google's English:  "One hundred percent open publishing, lower costs and a transparent pricing model. It is SUHF's goal for the agreements between Swedish universities and scientific publishers that will replace the current ones that expire in 2024. A newly appointed inquiry will develop the strategy to get there....

We are afraid that the publishers want to permanently have the agreements we have today that we do not consider to be beneficial for the higher education institutions in the long term. If we get caught up in this, we are left to pay both to read and to publish articles and there will be hybrids, where some articles are open and others are not. We want a change in how publications are financed, says Wilhelm Widmark, who is chief librarian at Stockholm University Library and is part of the investigation group...."

Link:

https://www.tidningencurie.se/nyheter/2021/05/03/vi-vill-fa-ner-kostnaderna-for-publiceringar/

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.sweden oa.swedish oa.universities oa.offsets oa.agreements oa.hybrid oa.plan_s oa.hei

Date tagged:

05/04/2021, 14:57

Date published:

05/04/2021, 10:57