[Open-access] [open-science] Elsevier: some facts, by Tim Gowers

Wed Apr 30 11:10:03 UTC 2014

may be of interest: a spreadsheet i'm working on with revenues, profits,
and profit margins of academic publishers for the last two years:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al2yRSSAaU2vdHBKQ3pMUXNUeXZGVnB2dG1Cakp4X0E&usp=drive_web#gid=0

incomplete at the moment. i've gone for the largest dozen or so publishers,
and divided them into commercial, university press, and society publishers.

stuart

On 30 April 2014 10:35, Michelle Brook <michelle.brook at okfn.org> wrote:

> In total agreement here.
>
> In the UK, the recent Wellcome Trust author processing charge data release
> was very useful. (More info:
> http://access.okfn.org/2014/03/24/scale-hybrid-journals-publishing/ and
> http://access.okfn.org/2014/04/01/wellcome-trust-apc-data-thank-you/)
>
> A few Universities have released some of their APC data (Cambridge and
> Queens Belfast) - at least the costs that have been born through libraries
> (although this misses the chunk paid through grants) Although I've not had
> time to explore this data fully yet.
>
> I'm hoping that soon we will be in push for other UK libraries to release
> similar data.
>
> I'd love it if anyone had time to help push for these data releases, or to
> explore the University data already out there.
>
> I imagine this is something that could be replicated in other countries
> also?
>
> M
>
> > On 30 Apr 2014, at 10:21, "Richard Poynder" <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Another question to ask perhaps is one that the Australian Open Access
> Support Group is currently puzzling over: How much is the research
> community spending on OA publishing?
> >
> > http://aoasg.org.au/what-are-we-spending-on-oa-publication/
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there anything else we need beyond these figures? What am I missing?
> >
> > Legacy publishers: US$5000
> > SciELO: US$90
> > Arxiv: US$7
> >
> > Multiplied by the number of papers published, this is what we would be
> paying, if we used one of these exclusively:
> >
> > Legacy: 10b
> > SciELO: 0.18b
> > Arxiv: 0.014b
> >
> > Do we need any figures beyond that? Rather than focusing on one
> publisher, we ought to perhaps, if anything, focus on the individual
> countries, so we can say to each citizen: "you are wasting this much of
> your taxes on legacy publishing".
> >
> > I must be missing something that people spend so much time on Elsevier,
> when we already seem to have all the numbers we need. What am I missing?
> >
> > Bjoern
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Björn Brembs
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> > Neurogenetics
> > Universität Regensburg
> > Germany
> >
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