Katie Mantell, Open access 'can cut costs by up to 30 per cent', SciDev.Net, April 30, 2004. A short summary of the new Wellcome Trust report. Excerpt: "Making scientific research freely available on the Internet could cut publishing costs by as much as 30 per cent without lowering publication standards, according to a new report by the Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's leading biomedical research charity....A payment of US$1,950 per research paper published would be sufficient to support a high quality and sustainable publishing model, it says. This, it adds, compares to an average of US$2,660 to publish a paper under the traditional system, in which readers pay for accessing research through their subscriptions to scientific journals....'The evidence presented [in the report] appears to contradict a lot of the figures quoted by commercial publishers and leaves me asking the question --how much profit should be made in publishing scientific research, which holds a potential benefit to us all, and which was funded by the public purse,' says Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/01/2004 03:32:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
