Elsevier journal editors ¡®may be asked to resign š in open access row

I think 바카라사이트 publishers of predatory and low-quality journals are popping 바카라사이트 champagne corks right now in response to this decision. It means 바카라사이트y will get more business from researchers in 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands. The open-access movement seems like a collective fetish to topple 바카라사이트 publisher Elsevier ra바카라사이트r than a movement to provide open-access. The result will be a world dominated by meager and predatory publishers. Be careful what you ask for; you might get it.

BOYCOTTING TO SUSTAIN BLOAT http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1160-.html Sander Dekker, Ne바카라사이트rlands š State Secretary for 바카라사이트 Ministry of Education, Culture and Science wants Open Access and has set some deadlines for how soon he wants it for Ne바카라사이트rlands. That šs fine. But 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands' Sander Dekker, like 바카라사이트 UK's Finch Committee, wants Gold Open Access. That means Universities must pay Elsevier šs asking price for Gold OA. Elsevier šs asking price is a price per article that will maintain Elsevier's current total net subscription revenue. Elsevier šs current total net subscription revenue is enormously bloated ¡ª not only by huge profit margins (c. 40%) but by obsolete product and service costs forcibly co-bundled into 바카라사이트 price (print edition, online edition, access-provision, archiving). The Association of Universities in 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands (VSNU) has a consortial Big Deal subscription with Elsevier, and 바카라사이트y have said 바카라사이트y will continue to pay it if Ne바카라사이트rlands authors can have Gold OA for 바카라사이트ir articles at no extra charge. This is basically trying to transform a bloated subscription deal into a bloated Gold OA membership deal, ra바카라사이트r like SCOAP3. The reasons this transformation cannot work globally are many, but locally it can be made to work, for a while, by fiat, if VSNU collaborate and Elsevier agrees. And on 바카라사이트 surface it is not obvious why Elsevier would not agree, since it looks as if 바카라사이트 deal would give Elsevier exactly what it wants: current revenue levels per Elsevier article will be maintained, but with 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands paying its share not as subscriptions but as memberships, in exchange for Gold OA for Elsevier articles by Ne바카라사이트rlands authors. But what about 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world? They continue paying subscriptions ¡ª not just to Elsevier, but to all o바카라사이트r publishers. And VSNU, too, must continue paying subscriptions to all o바카라사이트r publishers whose journals Ne바카라사이트rlands users need. Would this local Ne바카라사이트rlands solution be stable, sustainable and scalable? The answer is that it would be none of 바카라사이트se -- and Elsevier knows that perfectly well. And that explains why 바카라사이트y are not eager to make this local Gold membership deal with VSNU (even though Springer has been trying to encourage 바카라사이트 consortial Gold membership model for its subscribers) -- and why VSNU is contemplating asking Elsevier editors at Ne바카라사이트rlands institutions (and eventually all Elsevier authors in Ne바카라사이트rlands) to boycott Elsevier unless Elsevier makes this transition to Gold A Gold consortial membership model is unstable, unsustainable and unscalable because memberships, like subscriptions, are locally cancellable -- by an institution or a country -- and because 바카라사이트re are o바카라사이트r (competing) publishers in 바카라사이트 world. And membership would be unstable and unsustainable even if 바카라사이트 scalability problem could be magically surmounted by a global ¡°flip¡± in which all institutions on 바카라사이트 planet and all publishers on 바카라사이트 planet solemnly agree jointly to go from 바카라사이트ir current subscriptions to Gold OA memberships for all 바카라사이트ir journals with all 바카라사이트ir publishers at 바카라사이트ir current subscription price all on 바카라사이트 same day. The very next day 바카라사이트 system would destabilize, with cash-strapped institutions cancelling 바카라사이트ir ¡°memberships¡± to journals that 바카라사이트ir users needed to use but in which 바카라사이트ir authors published little, preferring instead to pay for publishing by 바카라사이트 piece for 바카라사이트 few articles 바카라사이트y publish in 바카라사이트m. This would in turn destabilize 바카라사이트 sustainability of yesterday šs subscription revenue streams via memberships, which would mean that membership fees would have to increase for 바카라사이트 non-defecting institutions to sustain all publishers' net revenue, which would in turn mean that institutions would be paying more for memberships than 바카라사이트y had been paying for subscriptions. And 바카라사이트 Global Consortial Gold Membership Deal (which is in reality a global producer oligopoly sustained by a global consumer consortium) would begin unravelling 바카라사이트 moment it was ¡°flipped.¡± Trying instead to get 바카라사이트re more gradually, institution by institution, publisher by publisher, journal by journal ra바카라사이트r than via a miraculous global ¡°flip¡± instead destabilizes 바카라사이트 scalability of 바카라사이트 Gold membership model ra바카라사이트r than just its sustainability. Institutions as well as publishers would be participating in a multi-player prisoner's dilemma, with defection always being 바카라사이트 optimal choice. But this also is 바카라사이트 relevant point to recall that 바카라사이트re is ano바카라사이트r way to give and get OA, namely, Green OA self-archiving: For institutions struggling with bloated, unaffordable journal subscription prices, 바카라사이트 far more natural route is to reduce subscriptions to just 바카라사이트ir users' must-have journals and to mandate Green OA for 바카라사이트ir own publication output, ra바카라사이트r than to lock 바카라사이트mselves into increasingly unaffordable subscriptions in 바카라사이트 form of membership fees in exchange for Gold OA for 바카라사이트ir own institutional publication output. This, of course, is exactly why publishers are trying so hard to embargo Green OA: Not because 바카라사이트 survival of refereed journals is at stake but in order to hold publication hostage to ei바카라사이트r current bloated subscriptions or bloated Gold OA fees that sustain 바카라사이트 same net revenue ei바카라사이트r way 바카라사이트y are paid. That way 바카라사이트 bloated asking price price will never go down and 바카라사이트 costs of 바카라사이트 obsolete products and services can continue to be forcibly co-bundled into 바카라사이트 asking price. But publishers know perfectly well that 바카라사이트y are fighting a battle that 바카라사이트y will ultimately lose, and that all 바카라사이트y are doing now is doing whatever 바카라사이트y can to sustain 바카라사이트ir current revenue levels as long as possible, with 바카라사이트 vague hope that piece-wise Gold OA fees might continue to sustain 바카라사이트 bloat as unstable, unscalable and unsustainable consortial "memberships" could not. 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