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The Netherlands: Publishing in Open Access increases usage and has no effect on book sales
OAPEN-NL’s final report, published yesterday, gives recommendations for research funders, libraries, publishers and authors. (...) In total 50 academic books were published in Open Access with subsidy from NWO. (...) OAPEN-NL also gathered data of all 50 books to get an insight in the costs related to publishing academic books. Based on this research, publishing a monograph in the Netherlands costs an average of € 12,000. Roughly half of these costs are for the Open Access edition. Remaining costs regard printing and disseminating the paper version. These results are important for the funding of Open Access monographs in the Netherlands.
The bottom line is that journals cost money
Open access is a utopian pipe dream, says Richard Hoyle.TimesHigherEducation.
The Cost of Open Science
..the hidden “costs” of open science — the cost of pushing science forward as a whole, sometimes at the expense of one’s own career…
The opportunity cost of paywalled research
My eye was caught by this tweet: https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/330747014340018177 And I found myself wondering how often this scenario plays out around the world every day. (…) How many thousands of valuable conversations never happen because you can’t idly browse at $15 a pop?
Open access: The true cost of science publishing
Tied into the varying costs of journals is the number of articles that they reject. PLoS ONE (which charges authors $1,350) publishes 70% of submitted articles, whereas Physical Review Letters (a hybrid journal that has an optional open-access charge of $2,700) publishes fewer than 35%;Nature published just 8% in 2011.Nature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ2Maj5DhCM
3sat, a TV channel of the three German speaking countries Austria, Germany and Switzerland, produced a documentary on scientific publishing. In German.
3sat nano-Mittschnitt vom 12.11.2012 zum Thema “Wissenschaftliche Publikationen” und wer verdient daran? — Oder wie “wissenschaftliche” Verlage Universitäten ausbluten. Und dies nicht im Dienste der Wissenschaft. — Auch hier zählen Renditen, die der Anleger, nicht die derer, die Forschung ermöglichen. Zum Beispiel die Öffentliche Hand.
The costs of Open Access
The costs of Open AccessThe Sanford C. Berstein Research, widely recognized as Wall Street’s premier sell-side research firm in releasing independent surveys of major institutional clients, has published data on Elsevier’s possible cost savings due to the probable introduction of open access:
We estimate that a full transition to OA could lead to savings in the region of 10-12% of the cost base of a subscription publisher.
Research paywalls tumble down
Research paywalls tumble downChange in academic research is overdue according to Mark Henderson, Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust since January 2012 and author of “The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters” in
The Telegraph.
UK plan for open access to research is a golden opportunity, not a cost
UK plan for open access to research is a golden opportunity, not a costStephen Curry on the costs of research referring to all reports recently published on opening up science.
Umgang mit Open-Access-Publikationsgebühren – die Situation in Deutschland in 2010
Umgang mit Open-Access-Publikationsgebühren – die Situation in Deutschland in 2010This article is a study on how to deal with Open Access costs in Germany in 2010.
The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial
The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly TrivialAn article collecting aspects of open access concerning the costs of data rates and data storage space.
Nature Editorial: Open Access costs
Nature Editorial: Open Access costsThe scientific journal Nature argues that open access costs by analyzing the Royal Society Report and the Finch Report, both published recently (see posts June 19th and June 21st).
Two reports highlight key aspects of the global trend towards open access to research results: who will pay, and how much, to supply what to whom?