Es geht um 22.4 Mio EUR, welche die Schweizer Hochschulen alleine den drei grossen Verlagen Elsevier, Springer und Wiley jährlich für Zeitschriften bezahlen. In 6 Wochen könnte es sein, dass dieses Geld nicht mehr an diese Verlage fliesst.

Wer den empfehlenswerten Beitrag “Open access: The true cost of science publishing” (2013) gelesen hat, blieb ratlos zurück. Die Einschätzungen über die tatsächlichen Kosten eines wissenschaftlichen Artikels reichten von $300 (Hindawi, PeerJ, Ubiquity Press) bis hin zu $30’000 (Nature). Dabei sind nur wenige Verlage auch wirklich transparent über ihre tatsächlichen Kosten. Neu gehört EMBO dazu.

(Cross-posted on the ScholarLed blog) I write a lot about scholar-led publishing. My thesis explored the differences between scholar-led and policy-based forms of open access, and I’ve recently published an article about early academic-led experiments in e-journal publishing.

To mark 10 years of Open Access Week, ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie Haustein explores recent trends in open access and scholarly communication.

As early-career researchers, one of the first things we are told about publishing is not to release our research as part of an edited volume. Chapters in edited volumes are not nearly as valued for career progression as journal articles, even though they may take the same amount of time and care to produce.

Vom 30. September bis 2. Oktober nahmen mehr als 400 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer an den Open-Access-Tagen 2019 in Hannover teil.

Matt and I are about to submit a paper. One of the journals we considered — and would have really liked in many respects — turned out to use the CC By-NC-SA license. This is a a very well-intentioned licence that allows free use except for commercial purposes, and which imposes the same licence on all derivative works. While that sounds good, there are solid reasons to prefer the simpler CC By licence.

I have recently had an article published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) entitled ‘Revisiting “the 1990s debutante”: Scholar‐led publishing and the prehistory of the open access movement’. The article explores a small number of early scholar-led e-journals and their relevance to open access today.

By now, it is public knowledge that subscription prices for scholarly journals have been rising beyond inflation for decades (i.e., the serials crisis): A superficially very similar graph was recently published for APC price increases: When not paying too much attention, both figures seem to indicate a linear increase in costs over time for both business models. However, the situation is more complicated than that.

I’ll have more to say about both of these in the near future, but for now suffice it to say that this (link): {.aligncenter .wp-image-16586 .size-large loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“16586” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2019/09/25/the-atterholt-wedel-and-plain-old-wedel-talks-from-svpca-2019-are-now-peerj-preprints/atterholt-and-wedel-2019-svpca-neural-canal-ridges-title-slide/”