Princeton will be struggling with a paid subscription to scientific articles
Princeton University, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States, is taking steps to ensure open access to scientific publications. For this purpose, a special committee to monitor the Open-Access Policy was created, and on September 19, 2011, a new meeting was approved at the committee meeting, which applies to all university staff members who conduct research and publish scientific articles.
In accordance with these rules (PDF), the university reserves the non-exclusive rights to publish in the open and free access to all scientific publications of staff. The transfer of copyright (in the sense of the exclusive right to publish scientific articles) to a third-party publishing company is now possible only as a last resort and after issuing special permission by the university administration for each individual article.
Princeton will encourage its employees to publish articles in open and free scientific archives, such as Arxiv or the university database.
The Open-Access Policy Initiative has been adopted due to the fact that some scientific literature publishers are clearly abusing their rights. They sell access to scientific articles for a lot of money, justifying a paid subscription with supposedly non-commercial status and high costs of digitizing and publishing journals.
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The cost of subscription to some scientific journals can reach up to $ 25,000 per year, which is completely unacceptable, given the initially open status of scientific publications. A typical medium-sized university, if it wants to purchase all the necessary journals for its library, spends several million dollars for these purposes annually. Separate articles are also often located behind a paid firewall, and their cost even in PDF format can go up to $ 2000-3000. At the same time, about 65% of the journals allow the authors of a scientific work to publish it independently, and 35% of the journals take exclusive distribution rights, that is, even the author himself does not have the right to publish an article, for example, on his own website.
Worse, if someone puts scientific articles in open access, then he faces a huge fine and long prison term, as is the case with freedom of information activist Aaron Schwarz.
Scientific publishers say that only such a business model allows you to maintain a high level of quality materials.
via The Conversation
In accordance with these rules (PDF), the university reserves the non-exclusive rights to publish in the open and free access to all scientific publications of staff. The transfer of copyright (in the sense of the exclusive right to publish scientific articles) to a third-party publishing company is now possible only as a last resort and after issuing special permission by the university administration for each individual article.
Princeton will encourage its employees to publish articles in open and free scientific archives, such as Arxiv or the university database.
The Open-Access Policy Initiative has been adopted due to the fact that some scientific literature publishers are clearly abusing their rights. They sell access to scientific articles for a lot of money, justifying a paid subscription with supposedly non-commercial status and high costs of digitizing and publishing journals.
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The cost of subscription to some scientific journals can reach up to $ 25,000 per year, which is completely unacceptable, given the initially open status of scientific publications. A typical medium-sized university, if it wants to purchase all the necessary journals for its library, spends several million dollars for these purposes annually. Separate articles are also often located behind a paid firewall, and their cost even in PDF format can go up to $ 2000-3000. At the same time, about 65% of the journals allow the authors of a scientific work to publish it independently, and 35% of the journals take exclusive distribution rights, that is, even the author himself does not have the right to publish an article, for example, on his own website.
Worse, if someone puts scientific articles in open access, then he faces a huge fine and long prison term, as is the case with freedom of information activist Aaron Schwarz.
Scientific publishers say that only such a business model allows you to maintain a high level of quality materials.
via The Conversation
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/129404/
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