Comments on: The cost of academic publishing https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/ Sharing the results of publicly funded research Sun, 08 May 2016 10:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Honest and reliable Open Access Journals in Open and Distance Education | OER Quality Project https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-244857 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:07:27 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-244857 […] Most readers are aware that under the current publishing market model, the only organisations profiting from publishing scientific research are large corporations or predatory independent publishers that charge high rates to authors for Article Processing Charges (APCs) and/or that charge libraries high subscription fees to provide digital (not printed) access to articles, in order to make them somehow available to the readers (see the cost of academic publishing). […]

]]> By: Shocking: France spends money to access the research produced by its researchers | Rapha-z-lab https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-104520 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:14:51 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-104520 […] power to the publishers to secure advantageous deals (and there was no transparency until some data were released thanks to freedom of information […]

]]> By: The cost of academic publishing | Publication S... https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-64475 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:57:59 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-64475 […] What could the UK academic community do with £14.5 million? That is the same as the yearly tuition fees for over 1600 undergraduates paying £9,000 fees.  […]

]]> By: Around the Web: Big Deals ‘R Us, or, Libraries in the lobster pot [Confessions of a Science Librarian] | Gaia Gazette https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-41334 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:58:35 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-41334 […] The Cost of Academic Publishing by Michelle […]

]]> By: Around the Web: Big Deals ‘R Us, or, Libraries in the lobster pot – Confessions of a Science Librarian https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-41008 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:54:15 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-41008 […] The Cost of Academic Publishing by Michelle […]

]]> By: The cost of academic publishing | Open Access W... https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-5511 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:14:54 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-5511 […] UPDATE 28 April 2014: Imperial have released their subscription data – £1,340,213. This takes the Russell Group to a total of £15.7 million in subscription fees to Elsevier alone with data related to four universities still outstanding. What could the UK academic community do with £14.5 million? That is the same as the yearly tuition fees for over 1600 undergraduates paying £9,000 fees.And that is what just 19 Universities in the UK are spending in total during a single year on journal subscriptions to a single publisher.- See more at: https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#sthash.My3HqgMc.dpuf  […]

]]> By: Around the Web: Your university is definitely paying too much for journals – Confessions of a Science Librarian https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-3940 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:48:20 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-3940 […] The cost of academic publishing […]

]]> By: Open access update May 2014 | Australian Open Access Support Group https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-3287 Thu, 29 May 2014 02:59:33 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-3287 […] Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers sent out a series of FoI requests to find out what UK libraries are spending on Elsevier. His comprehensive blog on his findings notes “A striking aspect of these amounts is just how much they vary.” This has sparked considerable discussion, not least “The cost of academic publishing”. […]

]]> By: To Open Access, then Beyond | biomolbioandco https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-2906 Tue, 20 May 2014 16:37:34 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-2906 […] APCs for the last years. Much has been written and discussed on the topic (a small selection: here here and here) and I am not going to repeat it here. In a nutshell, what emerged is a […]

]]> By: April highlights from the world of scientific publishing | sharmanedit https://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/#comment-2172 Tue, 06 May 2014 14:01:54 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=635#comment-2172 […] Elsevier (heard through @McDawg and others). He details this in a very long blog post, which was well summarised by Michelle Brook (@MLBrook) of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Gowers has attempted to get data on […]

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