Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.
Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.
"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.
via https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter
@erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter Sci-Hub has allowed this to happen, now we have to find a viable alternative to Sci-Hub.
@fresseng @erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter Indeed, but it's still unclear how it would work on a large scale and how it would substitute commercial publishers.
The fact that it has been theorized and applied in some occasions still doesn't make it an alternative.
Sci-Hub is currently an alternative to commercial publishers.
Openscience is hopefully what's going to substitute this system, but the path to reach that is unclear.
@mattjhodgkinson @rastinza @erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter I agree with the second.
@mattjhodgkinson @erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter Indeed the second one is what I meant.
@rastinza @erinnacland @MatteoCarandini @academicchatter Do you mean Sci-Hub allows academics to keep publishing closed access, knowing that Sci-Hub gives free (but illegal) access?
A more hopeful reading is that free access, whether via PMC, self-archiving, authors emailing, or Sci-Hub, steadily undermines toll access and enables libraries to cancel or renegotiate Big Deals and move to a world of universal, immediate, open access. #OpenAccess