[Oa-italia] RIN study on Activities costs and funding flows...

[Elena Giglia]

Il Research Information Network britannico ha pubblicato in maggio uno
studio dal titolo Activities, costs and funding flows in scholarly
communication.
http://www.rin.ac.uk/costs-funding-flows
Si tratta si uno studio che cerca di analizzare il "sistema" comunicazione
scientifica, misurando i costi a partire dalla produzione fino alla
lettura.

Dall'articolo su Times Higher Education che ne parla:

The advancement of the academy's collective body of knowledge has
traditionally been held to be reward enough for the time and effort put
into peer review.

But a new report has attempted to quantify in cash terms exactly what peer
reviewers are missing out on. It puts the worldwide unpaid cost of peer
review at £1.9 billion a year, and estimates that the UK is among the most
altruistic of nations, racking up the equivalent in unpaid time of £165
million a year.

...
The report shows that a move to electronic-only publishing would bring a
fall of about £1 billion (12 per cent) in global costs. A move towards
author-pays open access publishing, on top of the cost reductions arising
from a move to electronic publishing, could bring global savings of £556
million.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402189

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