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-p... [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/AnnualRep... [8] http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2003/dec/12/houseofcommons.research

rupert.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvarenga@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@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Brazil interest group for Open Knowledge and especially Open Data okfn-br@lists.okfn.org, open-science@lists.okfn.org

Good example.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barbara Dieu beeonline@gmail.com Date: 2013/3/27 Subject: [REA] Crisis of conscience To: rea-lista@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-a...

Um abc B.

-- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net

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