[GOAL] Number of Open Access journals per country/ Open Access Heatmap

[Ulrich Herb]

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


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