[Open-access] Global - national scientific information budget

Tue Mar 12 14:41:50 UTC 2013

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at inria.fr>wrote:

> Thanks. These seems very difficult to find indeed. I guess a priority in
> terms of open information could be the exchange of precise contractual data
> in the domain of scientific information...
>

The best way to get this is probably by FOI/A. That way the public
organization  (and this includes Universities in UK) HAS to reply. However
many publishers will put confidentiality clauses in and I have not come
across a library which will seriously challenge this. My guess is that
Universities will then say "It's confidential". However it may be worth
pursuing this - it could depend on the precise wording of the FOI by
country.

Brazil (I think) purchases centrally for all Brazilian univs. I think this
is a good idea and suspect they get a better deal than most individual
univs who are probably overwhelmed by publisher salesforce.

P.

Laurent
>
> Le 11 mars 2013 à 14:45, Bjoern Brembs a écrit :
>
> > On Monday, March 11, 2013, 11:38:39 AM, you wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a reference document which describes and breaks
> >> down (e.g. subscriptions) the scientific information
> >> budgets worldwide and country per country?
> >
> > I've been looking for this for years. In short, this is difficult to
> come by. The estimates that are available vary by a factor of 4 (5 billion
> up to 20 billion)  and don't mention any sources and some sources that
> claim to know the data, are behind paywalls (up to $2K in some cases).
> >
> > There are stats for German libraries freely available, links with
> evaluations in here:
> >
> > http://bjoern.brembs.net/comment-n900.html
> >
> > That's the best I could do, as an amateur in such things.
> >
> > I'd be very, very interested in any solid figures you might find.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Bjoern
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Björn Brembs
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > http://brembs.net
> > Neurogenetics
> > Universität Regensburg
> > Germany
> >
>
> Laurent Romary
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> laurent.romary at inria.fr
>
>
>
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