Abstract
In this paper I will discuss offsetting deals from their impact on accessibility, affordability to research results and on the possible development of scientific communication towards new modes and methods. I will look at the Swedish National Consortia’s offsetting deals as a specific case study.
Highlights
When looking at the development of the open access movement the following drivers stand out as main motivators, with different stakeholders attaching different weight to them.1
There is a considerable administrative relief in most offsetting deals compared to handling individual article processing charges (APCs) invoices
Counting APC costs based on the number of articles published and compare the offsetting deal cost per article with the, more or less arbitrarily calculated, official APC cost from the publisher is outside the cost neutrality issue
Summary
When looking at the development of the open access movement the following drivers stand out as main motivators, with different stakeholders attaching different weight to them. The accessibility issue With the spread of Internet connectivity and the WWW the possibilities to disseminate publications globally at a very low cost where revolutionized compared to the dissemination of print journals This was seen as a boost especially to universities in the developing world. Instead of hanging on to the journal and its different conflated roles (dissemination, prestige, priority and quality stamp), a model that has gone through few changes since its beginnings in the late 17th century, new ways based on the possibilities that the internet and the WWW have created should be adopted The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals” and Stephen Harnad “On-line Journals and Financial Firewalls” from 1998 As of writing this in March 2018 alternative ways of communicating and collaborating science are still very much fringe alternatives compared to the traditional publishing model, which most of the new open access-only publishers are adhering to. A decision by the RCUK13, signaling change, but we have to wait and see what the practical outcome will be
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