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

Fri Apr 25 06:49:16 UTC 2014

I'd love to see if similar data can be captured worldwide, where freedom of information acts/ similar legislation is in place & relevant.

Thanks for looking into Hong Kong Scott :-)

Michelle

> On 25 Apr 2014, at 07:35, Bjoern Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As I commented on Gowers' post, these figures (not by publisher but by library) are open knowledge in Germany:
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> http://www.hbz-nrw.de/angebote/dbs/
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> German libraries spent in 2011
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>    170 million € on books
>    130 million € on subscriptions
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> http://blogarchive.brembs.net/comment-n900.html
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> Here the link to an English overview for 2012 (2013 is still in the works):
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> http://www.hbz-nrw.de/dokumentencenter/produkte/dbs/aktuell/auswertungen/gesamt/dbs_gesamt_engl_12.pdf
> These figures are broken down in different sections in several documents - but all of these are in German only.
> 
> Bjoern
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>> On Thursday, April 24, 2014, 11:47:22 PM, you wrote:
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>> Thanks Peter - looping the open access working group into this discussion.
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>> Michelle
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>> On 24 April 2014 19:29, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Michelle Brook has written a very good overview of this
>> (http://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/the-cost-of-academic-publishing/)
>> which you should read first.  
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>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Mark Wainwright
>> <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Tim Gowers has written a new post in which he tries to establish some
>> facts that might bear on the Open Access debate. It's long but
>> excellent.
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>> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/
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>> Mark
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