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Researchers are
terrible business
people
…but we don’t have to be
Dr Corina Logan
University of Cambridge
cl417@cam.ac.uk
www.CorinaLogan.com
Twitter: @LoganCorina
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Tennant et al. 2016 F1000Research, McKiernan et al. 2016 eLife
How we exploit ourselves The cost of publishing a paper £0.90-220 = actual (typesetting, preservation) £3,777 (avg) = global academic community pays Who benefits? “the Big Four academic publishers have profit-margins between 32.4% and 42%. [A] typical profit margin of 37% […] means that 37% […] of an average paywalled article’s subscription money is pure profit. So [£1397] is leaving academia every time a paper is “published” behind a paywall.” Big four = Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Informa Bogich et al. On the marginal cost of scholarly communication. https://research.science.ai/article/on-the- marginal-cost-of-scholarly-communication ($1.30-318 = £0.90-220) 2012. What does it cost to publish a paywalled article with anyone? http://svpow.com/2012/07/18/what- does-it-cost-to-publish-a-paywalled-paper-with-anyone/ ($5,333=£3,777) Morrison, Heather (2011). Chapter two. PhD Dissertation http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ chapter-two-scholarly-communication-in-crisis/
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publishers
• Make reviews open
• Publish data (=9-50% more citations)
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• Evaluate research quality not metrics
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• Encourage
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scientific societies to switch their
journals to 100% OA at an ethical publisher
#ElsevierValentines
• Make ethical publishing an essential
27 37
requirement in job descriptions
You Retweeted
Paul Wicks @PaulLikeMe · Feb 13
More papers are read,
REVIEWER
When paywalls are through,
Open access for all McKiernan et al. 2016 eLife, Schönbrodt F. 2016. Changing
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