Exactly, Lisa. Scholarly communication does not have to be a market, and I
argue it is better if it is not.
Dr. Heather Morrison
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa
Principal
I agree these are interesting projects/products/goods. However, as examples
they aren't examples of a market are they?
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
lisalibrar...@gmail.com
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:22 PM Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> Two examples of transparent
Two examples of transparent pricing:
SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals (Canad):
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/scholarly_journals-revues_savantes-eng.aspx
This is a peer-reviewed journal subsidy program. The $ value, journal
eligibility, application and review
With this analysis, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a transparent
market then. Is there?
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
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On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:01 AM Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> hi Lisa,
>
> Thanks for the question.
>
> If one
hi Lisa,
Thanks for the question.
If one individual author, institution, or funder looks at the publisher's
website and sees a price (list price), but do not know that others do not pay
that price, that is a lack of transparency.
This is similar to going to buy a car and thinking the sticker
Heather, can you explain a bit your claim that different people paying
different prices means the market isn't transparent? Is that inherently
non-transparent? Or, are you suggesting the issue is that it isn't publicly
known what the different prices are? Lisa
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Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Dirk says with respect to OpenAPCs: "the real costs for academic institutions
and funders...deviate from list prices for various reasons".
If correct, as I assume it is, this is not a transparent market. For example, I
assume this means authors who are not covered by institutions or funders are
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Dear Heather,
thank you, I fully agree. Just some additional remarks:
The monitoring of publishers list prices is very important, the approach of
OpenAPC is to monitor the real costs per article for academic institutions and
funders, which deviate from list prices for various reasons. Both
