<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div>Apologies, I have noticed that my post included a link to the wrong blogpost. You can find the <a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/24/understanding-the-costs-of-scholarly-publishing-why-we-need-a-public-data-infrastructure-of-publishing-costs/">correct blog post here</a>. <div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Danny Lämmerhirt</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 October 2017 at 07:17, Danny Lämmerhirt <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:danny.lammerhirt@okfn.org" target="_blank">danny.lammerhirt@okfn.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-6183753294168632322gmail-docs-internal-guid-97d80d6e-51ee-393c-3e9e-4530d4ea1fe2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear all,</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apologies for cross-posting. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Open Knowledge International is pleased to announce a new blog post titled ‘</span><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2017/08/08/new-research-understanding-the-drivers-of-license-proliferation/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">Understanding the cost of scholarly publishing - Why we need a public data infrastructure for publishing costs</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">’. </span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As we celebrate</span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> International Open Access Week</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 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.</span></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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?  </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span id="m_-6183753294168632322gmail-docs-internal-guid-97d80d6e-51f2-5dc4-4d2c-611227d9fcd5"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span><a href="mailto:research@okfn.org" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">research@okfn.org</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. We are happy to arrange a short call.  </span></span><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In any case, please do feel free to share our blog post widely in your networks.</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Warm wishes,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Danny Lämmerhirt</font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Lato;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></font></span></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-6183753294168632322gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000">Danny Lämmerhirt</font></b><br><font color="#666666">Researcher &amp; Research Coordinator at </font><a href="https://okfn.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">Open Knowledge International</a></font></div></div></div><div><font><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#666666">Email:</font><font color="#888888"> </font><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:danny.lammerhirt@okfn.org" target="_blank">danny.lammerhirt@okfn.org</a></font></u></p><p style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#666666">Twitter:</font><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"> <a href="https://twitter.com/DanLammerhirt" target="_blank">@danlammerhirt</a></span></p><p style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#666666">Skype: danny.lammerhirt1</font></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small"><br></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://okfn.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://okfn.org</a> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small">| </span><a href="http://twitter.com/OKFN" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">@okfn</a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small">| </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">Face<wbr>book</a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small">| </span><a href="http://blog.okfn.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">Blog</a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small"> </span></div></font></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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