Dear Peter, thank you for your message. I have an addition to this ...
> The amount of money they need > (25,000 USD) is a mere EIGHT papers in the German Springer DEAL (2750Eur > each) and a mere FIVE papers for Open Access in Nature or Am Chem Soc. That is even worse: The DEAL articles cost EUR 2,750 plus EUR 150 overhead plus 19% VAT, i.e. EUR 3,451 gross. > The Budapest Declaration of Open Access has one of the great paragraphs > of liberation: ... > In the North we forget this. How many Open Access deals actively strive > for this outcome? And how many put the benefits to authors and > universities above global knowledge by propping up legacy bloated > publishers? I totally agree with you. Best regards Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Herb ./scidecode science consulting & research https://scidecode.com +49-(0)157 30306851 twitter.com/scidecode _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
