<font size=2 face="Century Gothic">Dear all,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">I've read this opinion <i>in the
Scientist Academic publishing is broken</i> by Michael P. Taylor
and I think should be of interest of the list</font>
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<p><a href="http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academic-publishing-is-broken/"><font size=2 color=blue face="Century Gothic"><b><i>The
current system by which academics publish their scientific discoveries
is a massive waste of money.</i></b></font></a>
<p><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">i would like to point out the three
reasons why, according to Michael P Taylor, researchers continue publishing
their papers in Elsevier, even knowing that the average cost per article
in any Elsevier journal in 2010 was $10,500 US. </font>
<p><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">First: monopoly effort of some journals
(there are no competitors in some areas. Cell</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">Second: Academics tend to be conservative</font>
<p><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">(...) </font><font size=3>Third,
and most important, while it may cost a fraction as much money to publish
in an open-access journal, those savings are not rewarded to the researchers.
With open-access publishing, the researchers must pay those fees out of
their own grant money, or with department funds, while subscription bills
are footed by the university libraries, which have completely separate
budgets. So, even though, under an open-access publishing regime, for every
thousand dollars that a researcher or department spends on author fees,
the library could save eight times as much in paid journal subscriptions,
the division of budgets within universities (and the fact that until all
publishing is open access libraries will still have to continue subscribing
to paid journals) is inhibiting this transition. </font><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><br>
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<p><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">I'm sure the list will add some more.</font>
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<br><a href="http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academic-publishing-is-broken/"><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academic-publishing-is-broken/</font></a>
<p><font size=2 face="Century Gothic">Cheers</font>
<p><font size=1 face="Century Gothic"><b>Consol Garcia Gómez</b><br>
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