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[Elena Giglia]

Per aggiungere qualche dato utile alla rilfessione sulla mail precedente,
trovo sul blog dell'Università di Liegi queste info sui guadagni degli
editori, in parte a cura di Heather Morrison (forse questi  ultimi sono
gia' circolati in lista, me ne scuso)

The goose that lays the golden egg!
27/01/2012

The enormous and sumptuous profits raked in by scientific and academic
publishers are regularly commented on by the international research
community. In the article entitled 'The enormous profits of STM scholarly
publishers', Heather Morrison, with figures to back up her argument, once
again illustrates their indecent nature:

    Elsevier: 36% of net profit (after taxes), in other words €864 million
out of sales figures of €2.386 million
    Springer Science + Business Media: 33.9%, or €294 million out of
revenue of €866 million
    John Wiley & Sons: 42%, or €80 million out of an income of €193 million

These figures are taken from chapter 2 of her thesis: Morrison, Heather
(2011). Scholarly communication in crisis. Freedom for scholarship in the
internet age. PhD Dissertation (in progress), which in turn cites a 2011
article published in The Economist.

Some recent and edifying articles on the subject!

    Bianchini, Laurence (06/07/2011). L'édition scientifique : son modèle,
ses scandales
    Pérès, Jean (04/08/2011). L'édition scientifique (1) : un oligopole
profitable
    SV-POW Blog (24/01/2012). The obscene profits of commercial scholarly
publishers
    Tuckerman, Laurette (2010?). Les nouveaux enjeux de l'édition
scientifique

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dott.ssa Elena Giglia
Responsabile Progetti Open Access
Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo
Università degli Studi di Torino
via Michelangelo, 27
10126 Torino
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Pubblicazioni e presentazioni in Open Access su E-LIS:
http://tinyurl.com/6gbgaj2
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