bjoern.brembs.blog » Should public institutions not be choosing the lowest responsible bidder?

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-12-07

Summary:

"While every major plumbing operation, every ventilation improvement and every cleaning contract needs to be signed after a competitive bidding procedure, we negotiate subscription deals behind closed doors and the signed contracts are often hidden behind non-disclosure agreements."

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“If one looks at the costs of these subscription deals, one finds that they amount to about US$5,000 per published subscription article. However, open access publishing costs (not article processing charges, APCs!) range from below US$100 to around US$500, depending on a variety of factors. Hence, publishing services which let everybody access our literature would blow out any subscription publisher if a competitive bidding process would take place!”

Link:

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/12/should-public-institutions-not-be-choosing-the-lowest-responsible-bidder/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.budgets oa.comment oa.universities oa.publishing oa.costs oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.economics_of oa.gold oa.negotiations oa.hei oa.journals

Date tagged:

12/07/2016, 13:09

Date published:

12/07/2016, 08:09