<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Buonasera,</div><div>per la Open Access Week l'Università di Cambridge ha pubblicato un interessante studio sulle spese per OA, che dimostra il paventato trend sulla crescita delle APC e sulla solita concentrazione nelle mani di pochi editori (stessa logica della "serial crisis"):</div><div>
<h1 class="entry-title">Cambridge Open Access spend 2013-2018</h1>
<a href="https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2219">https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2219</a></div><div>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="1">Most of our expenditure (91%) goes on article processing charges
(APCs), as perhaps one might expect, but the block grants are also used
to support the staff of the Open Access Team (3%), helpdesk and
repository systems (2%), page and colour charges (2%), and publisher
memberships (1%) (where this results in a reduced APC). The majority of
APCs we’ve paid go towards hybrid journals, which represent
approximately 80% of total APC spend.</font></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="1">
</font></span><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="1">So let’s take a look at which publishers have received the most
funds. We’ve tried to match as much of our raw financial information we
have to specific papers, although some of our data is either incomplete
or we can’t easily link a payment back to a specific article,
particularly if we look back to 2013-2015 when our processes were still
developing. Nonetheless, the average APC paid over the last 5 years was
£2,291 (inc. 20% VAT), but as can be seen from Table 1, average APCs
have been rising year on year at a rate of 7% p.a., significantly higher
than inflation. Price increases at this rate are not sustainable in the
long term – by 2022 we could be paying on average £3000 per article.</font></span></p>
</div><div>E la conclusione, in linea con PlanS, è che le riviste ibride hanno fatto solo gli interessi degli editori commerciali, senza nessun impegno reale alla transizione all'OA. <br></div><div><br></div><div>
<font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">For Research Councils’ funded papers the new guidelines place an
emphasis on fully Open Access journals and hybrid journals where the
publisher is taking a sustainable approach to managing the transition to
Open Access. We’ve spent a lot of money over the last five years, yet
it’s not clear that the influx of cash from RCUK and COAF has had any
meaningful impact on the overall publishing landscape. Many publishers
continue to reap huge windfalls via hybrid APCs, yet they are not
serious about their commitment to Open Access. </span></font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Con buona pace dle nostro contratto CARE/Elsevier.</div><div>Cari saluti</div><div>eg<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_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><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">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><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Skype: egiglia<br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="http://www.oa.unito.it" target="_blank">www.oa.unito.it </a><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b>NOAD OpenAIRE Italy</b></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.openaire.eu/" target="_blank">https://www.openaire.eu/</a></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="mailto:noad-it@openaire.eu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">noad-it@openaire.eu</a></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>