tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post9038214980995200348..comments2024-03-28T13:39:27.601-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason on Gold Open AccessDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-53044097496183837962016-07-25T01:35:48.109-07:002016-07-25T01:35:48.109-07:00David Shulenberger's Substituting Article Proc...David Shulenberger's <i>Substituting Article Processing Charges For Subscriptions: The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease</i> presents the ARL's view. He argues that the market power of the purchasers will be decreased if they are individual researchers rather than librarians:<br /><br />"An APC pricing regime has the potential to hold down scholarly communications costs only if the market power of publishers is reduced when the market is "flipped" to the APC scheme. Nothing in the "flipping" scenario accomplishes this end. Instead, the relative market power of publishers grows as their purchasers effectively become individual authors rather than their author's somewhat more powerful agents, their libraries."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-16666902209242775072016-06-16T08:18:08.885-07:002016-06-16T08:18:08.885-07:00The Library Loon makes a highly relevant point:
&...The Library Loon makes a <a href="http://gavialib.com/2016/06/tracking-scholarly-communication-acquisitions" rel="nofollow">highly relevant point</a>:<br /><br />"The key aspect of Elsevier’s business model that it will do its level best to retain in any acquisitions or service launches is the disconnect between service users and service purchasers."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-27946038413634438932016-06-08T09:13:55.486-07:002016-06-08T09:13:55.486-07:00Hivemind is another Elsevier acquisition.Hivemind is <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/connect/putting-data-management-in-the-hands-of-researchers-with-hivebench-acquisition" rel="nofollow">another Elsevier acquisition</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-23284619632879368152016-06-07T16:39:21.480-07:002016-06-07T16:39:21.480-07:00Fascinating site analyzing APC prices and spending...Fascinating site <a href="http://treemaps.intact-project.org/apcdata/openapc/#publisher/" rel="nofollow">analyzing APC prices and spending</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-12708025885659911082016-05-28T13:13:37.400-07:002016-05-28T13:13:37.400-07:00EU ministers have decided that from 2020 in the EU...EU ministers have decided that from 2020 in the EU open access will be mandatory. <a href="http://english.eu2016.nl/latest/news/2016/05/27/all-european-scientific-articles-to-be-freely-accessible-by-2020" rel="nofollow">Open access means that scientific publications on the results of research supported by public and public-private funds must be freely accessible to everyone.</a><br /><br />Hat tip to an <a href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/05/27/1923246/all-european-scientific-articles-to-be-freely-accessible-by-2020" rel="nofollow">anonymous poster at /.</a>.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-223783080227299972016-05-19T20:29:04.804-07:002016-05-19T20:29:04.804-07:00In Elsevier bought SSRN to increase its profits, p...In <a href="http://madlibbing.berkeley.edu/elsevier-bought-ssrn-to-increase-its-profits-plain-and-simple/" rel="nofollow"><i>Elsevier bought SSRN to increase its profits, plain and simple</i></a>, MacKie-Mason stresses that point:<br /><br />"I expect that Elsevier expects to leverage SSRN as a key part of the scholarly communications system in some major social science fields (especially economics, law and accounting) to extract value from us in other ways. Perhaps data mining that enables Elsevier to raise its journal prices. Perhaps degrading the quality of service that SSRN provides so that scholars can’t rely on it as much, and Elsevier can raise its journal prices. Perhaps creating greater lock-in to the Elsevier platform so that authors find it harder to switch to competing alternatives for publishing their work than they already do…enabling Elsevier to raise its journal prices."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com