[GOAL] New blogpost: Why we need a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs

[Danny Lämmerhirt]

Dear all,

Apologies, I have noticed that my post included a link to the wrong
blogpost. You can find the correct blog post here
<https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/24/understanding-the-costs-of-scholarly-publishing-why-we-need-a-public-data-infrastructure-of-publishing-costs/>
.

Best wishes,
Danny Lämmerhirt



On 25 October 2017 at 07:17, Danny Lämmerhirt <danny.lammerhirt at okfn.org>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
>
> Open Knowledge International is pleased to announce a new blog post titled
> ‘Understanding the cost of scholarly publishing - Why we need a public
> data infrastructure for publishing costs
> <https://blog.okfn.org/2017/08/08/new-research-understanding-the-drivers-of-license-proliferation/>’.
>
>
> As we celebrate International Open Access Week
> <http://www.openaccessweek.org/>, we wish to highlight the lack of
> financial transparency in the scholarly publication system. How much is
> paid for scholarly communication? Do current publishing models work in the
> service of research? How can more financial data help to understand
> problems in the publishing system? These questions are extremely hard to
> assess at the moment, because we simply lack the data for it.
>
> In our blog post we make the case for a public data infrastructure of the
> cost of scholarly publication. The post summarises evidence from different
> studies to explain the drivers of financial opacity, its detrimental
> effects on scholarly publication, and outlines steps that we can
> collectively take towards a public data infrastructure.
>
> Since Open Knowledge International is planning substantial work in this
> field, we would love to invite your feedback. Maybe you have thoughts on
> how you would like to move the topic forward? Maybe you plan activities in
> this area?
>
>
> We would love to learn how your upcoming plans and interests align with
> this topic. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us and email myself
> and Sander van der Waal (Head of Network and Partnerships) at
> research at okfn.org. We are happy to arrange a short call.
>
>
> In any case, please do feel free to share our blog post widely in your
> networks.
>
> Warm wishes,
>
> Danny Lämmerhirt
>
>
> --
> *Danny Lämmerhirt*
> Researcher & Research Coordinator at Open Knowledge International
> <https://okfn.org/>
>
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>
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>
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>
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-- 
*Danny Lämmerhirt*
Researcher & Research Coordinator at Open Knowledge International
<https://okfn.org/>

Email: *danny.lammerhirt at okfn.org <danny.lammerhirt at okfn.org>*

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