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Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding : a public data infrastructure for financial flows in academic publishing

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11/04/2016
Author
Lawson, Stuart
Gray, Jonathan
Mauri, Michele
Keywords
Z665 Library Science. Information Science
ZA4050 Electronic information resources
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Abstract
‘Public access to publicly funded research’ has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments and public institutions around the world have mandated that publications supported by public funding sources should be publicly accessible. Publishers are experimenting with new models to widen access. Yet financial flows underpinning scholarly publishing remain complex and opaque. In this article we present work to trace and reassemble a picture of financial flows around the publication of journals in the UK in the midst of a national shift towards open access. We contend that the current lack of financial transparency around scholarly communication is an obstacle to evidence-based policy-making – leaving researchers, decision-makers and institutions in the dark about the ­systemic implications of new financial models. We conclude that ­obtaining a more joined up picture of financial flows is vital as a means for researchers, ­institutions and others to understand and shape changes to the ­sociotechnical systems that underpin scholarly communication.
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Lawson , S , Gray , J & Mauri , M 2016 , ' Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding : a public data infrastructure for financial flows in academic publishing ' , Open Library of Humanities , vol. 2 , no. 1 , e10 , pp. 1-35 . https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.72
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Open Library of Humanities
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.72
ISSN
2056-6700
Type
Journal article
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Copyright: © 2016 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal License (CC0 1.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium. See https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
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Parts of this research were supported through a grant from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) as well as through the EU FP7 co-financed PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) project.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16953

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