« The discussion on the transformation of scholarly journals to open access (OA) increasingly concerns financial aspects. Considering the variety of funding strategies for article processing charge (APCs), the array of…
« The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing. However, this labor is under-recognized, its magnitude is unknown, and alternative ways of organizing…
« Each year, EBSCO surveys a wide range of publishers and reviews historical serials pricing data to
« In this paper, we analyze the compelling issue of monetary valuation of a scientific publication. While many academic scholars tend to overlook the topic, as being either too difficult or…
« For more than 30 years the spiraling costs of scholarly journal subscriptions, of-ten called the “serials crisis,” have been a hotly debated topic. Academics and librarians have pointed out the…
« For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed…
« La note de conjoncture d’EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) sur le prix des périodiques en 2021 est désormais disponible. Vous y retrouverez les projections de prix qui vous aideront à établir…
« (…) The subscription monopoly has been broken. Content is a commodity; it is ubiquitous. What we are paying for by subscribing to journals is as much convenience now as it…
« Le chercheur d’aujourd’hui, au moins dans les domaines des sciences dites « dures », ne va plus beaucoup dans les bibliothèques pour accéder aux travaux de ses collègues. Il trouve quasiment tout…
« L’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC) a publié un nouveau mémoire intitulé « Contrer les coûts insoutenables des revues savantes », qui traite de la situation de plus en plus…
