Dear all, I've read this opinion in the Scientist Academic publishing is broken by  Michael P. Taylor and I think should be of interest of the list
The current system by which academics publish their scientific discoveries is a massive waste of money. i would like to point out the three reasons why, according to Michael P Taylor, researchers continue publishing their papers in Elsevier, even knowing that the average cost per article in any Elsevier journal in 2010 was $10,500 US.  First: monopoly effort of some journals (there are no competitors in some areas. Cell Second: Academics tend to be conservative (...) Third, and most important, while it may cost a fraction as much money to publish in an open-access journal, those savings are not rewarded to the researchers. With open-access publishing, the researchers must pay those fees out of their own grant money, or with department funds, while subscription bills are footed by the university libraries, which have completely separate budgets. So, even though, under an open-access publishing regime, for every thousand dollars that a researcher or department spends on author fees, the library could save eight times as much in paid journal subscriptions, the division of budgets within universities (and the fact that until all publishing is open access libraries will still have to continue subscribing to paid journals) is inhibiting this transition. I'm sure the list will add some more. http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academic-publishing-is-broken/ Cheers Consol Garcia Gómez Responsable Unitat de Recerca Biblioteca del Campus del Baix Llobregat UPC - BarcelonaTech CBL Edifici D-7 Esteve Terradas, 10 08860 Castelldefels Tel. 93 552 35 63 [email protected] http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/BCBL/ http://twitter.com/BibliotecaCBL [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
