[BOAI] Re: Fwd: OA event - Academy of Social Sciences/ SAGE

[Gary Hall]

Hi,

Given this event is being sponsored by the Times Higher Education 
magazine and the publishers SAGE, Routledge, and Wiley Blackwell, and 
includes a panel discussion on the future of journals with senior 
managers at Routledge, SAGE and Wiley Blackwell, those on this list may 
be interested to read:

David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley and Kenneth Weir, ‘What Are 
We To Do With Feral Publishers?’, http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9689.

Simon Lilley, ‘How Publishers Feather Their Nests on Open Access to 
Public Money’, Times Higher Education, 1 November, 2012, p. 30-31, 
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421672&c=1

Harvie et al call for what is effectively a boycott of Routledge if 
their parent company, Informa plc, does not bring down its journal 
subscriptions charges and pay the UK Exchequer the approximately £13 
million lost to the treasury as a result of its 2009 decision to become 
a Jersey company domiciled in Zug, the canton with the lowest rate of 
taxation in Switzerland.  (It seems Informa can be placed alongside 
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Google and Starbucks on the roll call of 
companies that aggressively avoid paying the standard rate of 26% tax in 
the UK.)

Writing for the Sage journal Organization, Harvie et al also conclude by 
calling 'upon the editors of Organization to press Sage to lower the 
subscription price to a more acceptable level' If that approach fails, 
they 'suggest that the editors, writers and readers of Organization 
follow the example set by Topology in leaving the journal en masse to 
set up, submit to and subscribe to an identical journal, that charges a 
more acceptable fee.'

Gary

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School of Art and Design, Coventry University
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On 16/11/2012 15:26, Peter Suber wrote:
> [Forwarding with permission from Katie Baker at Sage Publications. 
>  --Peter Suber.]
>
> *Invitation to important conference on Open Access Publishing, 29 and 
> 30 November*
>
> *You are invited to a major two-day conference*to look at how 
> implementing the Finch Review on Open Access Publishing will affect 
> researchers and learned societies in the arts, humanities and social 
> sciences.
>
> Dame Janet Finch will co-chair the event, which takes place at the 
> Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX on 29 and 
> 30 November. It is sponsored by the Times Higher Education magazine 
> and the publishers SAGE, Routledge, and Wiley Blackwell,
>
> The Academy of Social Sciences is running the event in the wake of 
> questions about the switch to open access. Non-science disciplines are 
> unsure there will be sufficient funding to pay for papers to be 
> published in journals under the new ‘gold option’ system, and learned 
> societies are concerned that their journal income will fall.
>
> The first day of the conference is for researchers, both within and 
> outside of universities, and senior university managers. It looks at 
> the implications of the review for individual academics, for the 2020 
> Research Excellence Framework exercise, and for authors’ rights and 
> intellectual property.
>
> Speakers include: Professor Dame Lynne Brindley, Member of AHRC 
> Council and former Chief Executive of the British Library; Professor 
> Tim Blackman, Pro Vice Chancellor, The Open University; Professor 
> Robert Dingwall, who will bring an independent perspective; Paul 
> Hubbard, Head of Research Policy, HEFCE; Maureen Duffy, President of 
> Honour, British Copyright Council; Professor Charlotte Waelde, 
> Professor of Intellectual Property, Law, University of Exeter; and 
> Jude England, Head of Social Sciences, The British Library.
>
> The second day is for senior managers of learned societies and is 
> chaired by Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of 
> Salford, a member of the Finch Committee. It looks at the implications 
> of the review for journals and the business models of learned 
> societies in the UK and US.**
>
> It includes a panel discussion on the future of journals with senior 
> managers at Routledge, SAGE and Wiley Blackwell. Other speakers 
> include Sally Hardy, Chief Executive of the Regional Studies 
> Association; Professor Stephen Bailey, Professor of Public Law, 
> University of Nottingham; Dr Rita Gardner, Director of the Royal 
> Geographical Society; and Dr Felice J Levine, Executive Director, 
> American Educational Research Association.
>
> For more details of the event, see: www.acss.org.uk 
> <http://www.acss.org.uk>
>
> *To book a free place, please contact Tony Trueman, Academy Press 
> Officer, at t.trueman at acss.org.uk <mailto:t.trueman at acss.org.uk>  or 
> on 07964 023392.*
>
>
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