Hello everyone,
I've created the page for the Wikimedia UK monthly report for April 2013
now. It can be seen at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2013/April
Please do take a look and add useful content wherever you can - we'd love
for you to be involved.
Thanks,
Stevie
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it seems that CEO of taylor & francis, Roger Horton [2], wanted to charge
nearly 3000 USD to publish an article accessible without paywall in their
"journal of library administration" [0]. they are located in milton park,
oxon, and belong to informa, with its CEO, Peter Rigby [1]. if my english
is good enough to understand that correctly *wonder*. see forwarded mail
below ...
would 3000 usd in future be then a fair price the wikimedia movement should
offer scientific authors and reviewing groups to publish an article as
cc-by-sa? i was trying to get some information to calculate if this number
does make any sense [3][4][5][6][7]
* 15'000 - 25'000 peer reviewed journals
* 1'300'000 peer reviewed papers published a year
* 3.5 % of them open available, further 4.6 % after some embargo period
* 4'000 publishers
* 2'200'000 books published a year
* 2012 reed elsevier numbers:
* total revenue: £6bn
* profit: £1.358bn
* revenue scientific publications: £2 bn
* electronic revenue: 54%
* user&subscription revenue: 70%
* 30'000 people
* 2011 informa / taylor francis numbers:
* total revenue £1.3 bn
* profit $336 m
* publishing business 54% of total revenue
* publishing business 69% of profit
* 67% of publishing revenues is through subscriptions
* part of it academic information (AI)
* 25% of groups revenue
* 35% of groups profit
* 20% of groups employees (<1600, out of 8300)
* 1'600 academic journals
* 3'500 new books published
this would mean, if one paper costs 3000 usd * 1300000 = 3'900'000'000 ...
the peer reviewed scientific publishing market would be a $4bn market in
2013. 2003 the guardian reported the "scientific publishing market" worth
£4.5bn. [8] and, it would mean 1 person at a publisher works full time for
one academic journal published. "open access" et al is listed as "external
risk" e.g. in reed elseviers annual report.
[0]
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/journals-editorial-board-resigns-in-…
[1] http://www.informa.com/Who-We-Are/Board-of-Directors/Peter-Rigby/
[2] https://twitter.com/RogerGHorton
[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2909426/
[4] http://informationr.net/ir/14-1/paper391.html
[5] http://www.worldometers.info/books/
[6] http://reporting.reedelsevier.com/media/174016/reed_elsevier_ar_2012.pdf
[7]
http://www.informa.com/Documents/Investor%20Relations/Reports/2011/AnnualRe…
[8] http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2003/dec/12/houseofcommons.research
rupert.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton.alvarenga(a)okfn.org>
Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:19 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Crisis of conscience Fwd: [REA]
To: "Mailing list do Capítulo brasileiro da Wikimedia." <
wikimediabr-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Brazil interest group for Open Knowledge
and especially Open Data <okfn-br(a)lists.okfn.org>,
open-science(a)lists.okfn.org
Good example.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barbara Dieu <beeonline(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/3/27
Subject: [REA] Crisis of conscience
To: rea-lista(a)googlegroups.com
Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of
conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz
In a dramatic show of support for the open access movement, the
editor-in-chief and entire editorial board of the Journal of Library
Administration announced their resignation last week. In a letter to
contributors, the board singled out a conflict with owners over the
journal's licensing terms, which stripped authors of almost all claim
to ownership of their work.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4149752/library-journal-resigns-for-open-…
Um abc
B.
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Barbara Dieu
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