Thanks Patrice. We are on the same page. Arun
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:50 PM 'Patrice Riemens' via Goa-Research-Net < [email protected]> wrote: > And then think that (almost) all the 'intrants', i.e. the contents, are > financed by the public purse. Hence the loud call for 'open access'. The > scientific publishing industry has a higher profit margin than big pharma! > they should be boycotted, and contributing to peer review (for free) should > be discontinued and reorganised in the form of academic cooperatives, > without loss of quality (and anyway, there is far too much academic > publishing driven by the 'publish or perish' concept, which serves no > purpose. cheers to All, p+7D!&H! > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Subbiah Arunachalam" <[email protected]> > *To: *"LIS-Forum" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > *Sent: *Monday, 12 February, 2024 00:54:43 > *Subject: *[GRN] Academic Publishing Statistics > > Friends, > > See "Academic Publishers Statistics" June 21, 2023 by Dimitrije Curcic. > > https://wordsrated.com/academic-publishing-statistics/#more-7601 > > > Here are some excerpts. > > The worldwide revenue from academic publishing stands at over $19 billion > per year. > > Out of this figure, over 50% is attributed to 5 major publishing companies > – Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and SAGE. > [These corporations are collectively referred to as the publishing > oligarchs] > > The academic publishing industry has one of the biggest profit margins, > sometimes amounting to 40%. > > Major players in academic publishing generate larger profit margins than > some of the most successful tech companies, like Google and Amazon. > > Elsevier is the biggest academic publishing company in the world, > generating over $3.35 in revenue. SAGE, Springer Nature, and John Wiley & > Sons all generate over $1.5 billion annually. > > **** > > The Indian Government is planning to adopt the *One Nation One > Subscription* (ONOS) plan. The implementation has been postponed at least > twice. If adopted, it would mean paying unaffordably huge sums to these > (and other publishers). It is difficult to believe that the publishers > will agree to accept a penny less than what they have been earning from > India currently. Indeed, they will ask for much more for two reasons, viz. > their journals would become accessible to many times more institutions and > individuals than at present, and usually they increase prices of journals/ > bundles by 6-10% every year. Argentina attempted a similar programme in > 2021. Their pilot programme was restricted to providing access to > universities and students but not the lay public. > > India would do well to join the worldwide movement of community-led open > science and promote initiatives such as Green open access, interoperable > institutional and global repositories, preprints followed by post public > peer review,open access databases, and work closely with non-commercial > efforts like the Leiden ranking > > With warm regards, > > Subbiah Arunachalam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CABghs%2BYbAm6cDBOVKh6%3D39roHj7wROqKXhAkXyzB2_ovrh2_5A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CABghs%2BYbAm6cDBOVKh6%3D39roHj7wROqKXhAkXyzB2_ovrh2_5A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/1756099633.112147.1707767851223.JavaMail.zimbra%40puscii.nl > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/1756099633.112147.1707767851223.JavaMail.zimbra%40puscii.nl?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CABghs%2Ba7mAfJa__wnX8Z%3DopWGo2-JJGHTE4S5gwiYTOYUpM%2B0Q%40mail.gmail.com.
