PASTEUR4OA:: Revealing the true costs of Gold OA - towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs

Danny Lämmerhirt; Jonathan Gray; Stuart Lawson; Samuel Moore

PASTEUR4OA: Revealing the true costs of Gold OA - towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs

Danny Lämmerhirt, Jonathan Gray, Stuart Lawson, Samuel Moore

University of St Andrews

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This briefing paper presents the current state of financial opacity in scholarly journal publishing. It describes what information is needed in order to obtain a bigger, more systemic picture of financial flows, and to understand how much money is going into the system, where this money comes from, and how these financial flows might be adjusted to support different kinds of publishing models.

This document aims to shed light on following questions: What do we currently know about the costs of open access publishing? Which factors contribute to the current opacity in the market? Which approaches are taken to foster financial transparency of Gold OA? And what are recommendations to funders, institutions, researchers and publishers to increase transparency?

Original language	English
Publisher	PASTEUR4OA
Commissioning body	European Commission
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - Jun 2016

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