<div dir="ltr"><div>Ovviamente la questione sta dilagando su Twitter.<br></div>Vi copio alcuni dei piu' gustosi<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:27px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.27px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Scholarly publishers whose primary objective isn't to provide valuable services to promote an open </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/scholcomm?src=hash" class="gmail-twitter-hashtag gmail-pretty-link gmail-js-nav" dir="ltr" style="background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(29,161,242);text-decoration:none;font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:27px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.27px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px"><s style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(29,161,242)">#</s><b style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(29,161,242)">scholcomm</b></a><span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:27px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.27px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"> ecosystem but to maximize their profits shouldn’t be eligible for getting money out of public funds in the future!</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:27px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.27px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">How to make sure </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Openaccess?src=hash" class="gmail-twitter-hashtag gmail-pretty-link gmail-js-nav" dir="ltr" style="background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(29,161,242);text-decoration:none;font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:27px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.27px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px"><s style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(29,161,242)">#</s><b style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(29,161,242)">Openaccess</b></a><span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:27px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.27px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"> publishing repeats mistakes of subscription publishing....</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(20,23,26);font-family:"Segoe UI",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:27px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.27px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Cynical and shameless. How long will the research community be manipulated like this</span>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-05-05 11:32 GMT+02:00 Elena Giglia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elena.giglia@unito.it" target="_blank">elena.giglia@unito.it</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Preaparando le slides per il mio prossimo corso, mi sono imbattuta in un Tweet di Bianca Kramer (3-4 maggio) sul Prospectus for public offering dell'editore Springer (25 aprile).<br></div>Il llink e' qui, ma non so se funziona: <a href="https://t.co/elpG4zFGnK" target="_blank">https://t.co/elpG4zFGnK</a><br></div>Provo ad allegare il pdf, perche' e' gustosissimo.<br></div>Estrapolo alcuni paragrafi, perche' finalmente viene scritto nero su bianco quello che pensano veramente gli editori commerciali dell'Open Access, che non e' certo quello che vengono a raccontare nei convegni, ovvero:<br></div>- green open access e' una minaccia al modello di business<br></div>- OA e' solo un modo per fare business e accrescere proventi, va sfruttato<br></div>- gli offset deals sono un modo per "catturare un largo numero di clienti con un solo contratto"<br></div>- visto che alcune nostre riviste hanno alto Impact Factor, possiamo alzare le APC per quelle riviste<br></div><div>- avere molte riviste con alto Impact Factor ci permette di "command premium APC to authors"<br></div>- come strategia, differenziare le APC a seconda dell'Impact Factor<br></div>(notare per inciso che si parla anche di utilizzare in modo piu' aggressivo la pratica di "spostare" articoli fra pubblicazioni)<br><br></div>Che dire? Lo sapevamo gia', ma forse e' il caso di diffondere questo testo ai nostri autori, che spesso sono totalmente ignari di essere vittima di tutto questo.<br></div>Personalmente, ritengo che vada anche ridiscussa la definizione di "predatory publisher", alla luce di questi illuminanti paragrafi.<br></div>Sempre buon sabato<br></div>eg<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>10.2.4 pag. 59<br>During the periods under review, so-called “offset deals” have further gained ground. Under an “offset<br>deal”, a consortium of institutions located in the relevant country gains access to journals in exchange for a lump<br>sum, which is comprised of a readership fee covering access to non-open access content and a publication fee<br>covering article processing charges (“APCs”) of a pre-determined number of articles authored by researchers at<br>those institutions. These articles are then made freely available on an open access basis around the world. We<br>have entered into offset deals in a number of countries, including in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,<br>Sweden and Austria. While these offset deals may not always be as economically attractive as individual<br>contracts, <b>they allow us to capture a large number of customers with a single contract</b>.<br></div><div><br><br></div><div>10.2.5 pag 59<br></div><div><b>Springer Nature was one of the first academic publishers to actively embrace the opportunities offered<br>by open access, which provides us additional opportunities to generate revenues, </b>as open access publications are<br>funded by authors and/or their funders or the relevant research institutions, not libraries. Accordingly, revenues<br>stemming from APCs are in the short- to medium-term supplementary to the subscription business, not<br>cannibalistic<b>. Some of our journals are among the open access journals with the highest impact factor, providing<br>us with the ability to charge higher APCs for these journals than for journals with average impact factors.<br></b>While non-profit open access publishers are increasingly entering the market, putting pressure on the<br>pricing of APCs, open access models are expected to grow much faster than the rest of the market, due to<br>growing publishing volumes and a growing number of journals. Initiatives advocating free access to taxpayerfunded<br>research papers and articles and policies of certain funding institutions have led to an increasing number<br>of authors opting to publish their articles in open access publications instead of traditional subscription-based<br>publications<b>.<br><br></b></div><div>12.2.2 dal titolo Strong Leadership: Strategic Focus on Research, with a High-Quality Brand Portfolio, Global Scale<br>and Favorable Positioning to Benefit from Strong Growth in the Open Access Publishing Market. (citazione a pag. 98<b>)<br></b></div><div><b>Brand strength is becoming increasingly important, as market participants increasingly differentiate in<br>the open access market with regard to APCs according to a journal’s impact factor. Our open access portfolio<br>includes a large number of leading brands, such as such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and<br>Springer Open, and high impact factor publications,<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"> positioning us well to command premium APCs from<br>authors.</span><br><br></b>12.3.1 Capitalize on our Leading Position in Open Access. pag 99<br><b>We were one of the first academic publishers to actively embrace the opportunities offered by open</b><br>access, making us a pioneer and the clear leader in the pure open access market and a leading force in the hybrid<br>open access market. <b>We intend to focus on initiatives that aim at increasing the number of submissions, the<br>acceptance rate and APC.</b><br>In order to increase submissions, we intend to develop our open access title portfolio by selecting<br>content for our publications that we believe will support the impact factor and increase the reputation of our<br>existing journals and by launching new journals in areas we perceive to be underserved by open access<br>publications. We also intend to enhance our hybrid offerings, i.e., journals that contain both open access and<br>subscription content. We also seek to increase the number of submissions through digital marketing and author<br>communication initiatives that aim at further improving the brand recognition and usage of our journals.<br>We aim at achieving our target acceptance rate through a number of initiatives. These initiatives include<br>increasing the speed and quality of our acceptance process and further enhancing our peer reviewer network and<br>support system and <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">more aggressively pursuing the transfer of articles submitted to, but not ideally suited for,<br>other publications.</span> <b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">We also aim at increasing APCs by increasing the value we offer to authors through<br>improving the impact factor and reputation of our existing journals. Further, we intend to employ a price<br>differentiation strategy by tailoring APCs to the discipline and impact factor of the relevant journal, taking<br>advantage of the high number of journals in our portfolio with a high impact factor.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></b><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="m_797380238264641883gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)">dr. Elena Giglia<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Unità di progetto Open Access<br>Direzione Ricerca e Terza Missione<br>Universita' degli Studi di Torino<br>tel. +39.011.670<b>.4191</b></span><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><a href="http://www.oa.unito.it" target="_blank">www.oa.unito.it </a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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