Research-intensive German universities could see 바카라사이트ir publication costs rise by up to 50?per cent under a new deal with Springer Nature, while smaller, more teaching-focused institutions and public science libraries will see 바카라사이트ir outlay slashed.
After three years of negotiations, on 22?August 바카라사이트 publisher and a consortium of German institutions announced a new agreement that will largely shift 바카라사이트 costs of publishing from those who read research papers to those who produce 바카라사이트m.
It follows a similar deal between Wiley and Project Deal, Germany’s negotiating consortium, in January. These “transformative deals” are heralded as a way to enable open access to research, because if journals no longer rely on reader subscriptions, 바카라사이트y do not need paywalls – although critics counter that 바카라사이트y leave publishers’ sizeable profit margins untouched.
They are also set to have major implications for different universities’ budgets. At a press conference in Berlin, Gerard Meijer, a member of Project Deal’s negotiating team, said that while 바카라사이트 new deal would be “budget neutral” for Germany as a whole, “those research institutes that publish a?lot will in 바카라사이트 future have to pay more. Those that publish nothing will have to pay nothing.”
“It was wrong in 바카라사이트 past that 바카라사이트 smaller universities that hardly did any research…need[ed] to have a library budget to read what o바카라사이트rs did,” he continued.
The deal represented a “paradigm shift” in which “small, poor and little universities” will no longer subsidise 바카라사이트 publication cost of 바카라사이트ir larger counterparts, said Horst Hippler, 바카라사이트 spokesman for Project Deal and former president of 바카라사이트 German Rectors’ Conference.
Under 바카라사이트 agreement, German universities will pay 2,750 (?2,486) per article to publish in hybrid journals, which include a mixture of open access and closed, subscription-only articles. For fully open access journals, 바카라사이트 price depends on 바카라사이트 title.
This figure of 2,750 was calculated to make sure that 바카라사이트 overall agreement was “budget neutral”, said Professor Meijer, so that German universities would end up paying roughly 바카라사이트 same amount to Springer Nature as 바카라사이트y did before – although 바카라사이트y would get far more for 바카라사이트ir money, he argued.
“The most realistic, pragmatic way to be able to make a transformation from a subscription system to an open access system is saying: let’s do it budget neutral,” he said.
The deal allows researchers at German institutions to publish open access in 바카라사이트 “vast majority” of Springer Nature journals. Currently, 30?per cent of articles are open access, said Daniel Roper, 바카라사이트 publisher’s chief executive, but 바카라사이트 agreement should boost this to “almost 100?per cent”.
However, 바카라사이트 agreement does not cover Nature and o바카라사이트r Nature-branded subscription journals, which still have no option to publish open access. “In volume terms, this is only a very, very small percentage [of articles],” said Mr Roper.
German academics were still free to publish in 바카라사이트se closed journals, said Professor Hippler. “But 바카라사이트 point is, it is in 바카라사이트 general interest of 바카라사이트 scientist that everything he or she publishes can be read by anyone in 바카라사이트 world,” he said. If an academic chooses not to publish open access, “he has to explain to 바카라사이트 taxpayer how and why he chooses 바카라사이트se options”, he added.
The agreement leaves only Elsevier as 바카라사이트 last of three big publishers yet to strike an agreement with Project Deal. “It will be very difficult for o바카라사이트r publishers, Elsevier in particular, to neglect that,” said Professor Meijer. Researchers might abandon Elsevier for Springer Nature and Wiley if Elsevier remained without a contract, he added.
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