Transformative open-access deals spread to the US (10 July)

frankhellwig's bookmarks 2020-10-06

Summary:

One issue common to the recent read-and-publish agreements is that substituting APCs for subscriptions shifts the burden of journal financing onto the relatively small fraction of subscribing institutions that are research intensive. ...

“It remains to be seen whether ‘publish’ institutions will be able and willing to accept the radical reallocation of costs logically implied by transformative agreements,” notes a report by the OA advocacy group Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

As the number of OA articles in hybrid journals increases, universities and libraries that haven’t negotiated transformative deals question whether to continue to subscribe when much of the content is free. “I call this counting the holes in Swiss cheese,” says Esposito. “Every deal signed lowers the value of ‘read’ subscriptions at all other institutions,” the SPARC report says.

Link:

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20200710a

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Tags:

oa.new oa.agreements oa.offsets

Date tagged:

10/06/2020, 11:03

Date published:

10/06/2020, 07:03