Lund University subscriptions have tripled in ten years.
In total there are around 28 000 magazines for almost every niche of the research. Every year released about 2.5 million scientific articles in this flood of newly produced knowledge.
Journal The system is not only a way to disseminate new results, but also the primary way to evaluate research findings. It determines the research that counts. The situation has given the publishers behind the magazines special status.
– Researchers depend on publishing in these journals. Publishers, which publishes them have virtually a monopoly. It has put higher education is a leghold trap, says Wilhelm Widmark, head librarian at the University of Stockholm.
University Library in Lund
Lund University costs subscriptions, e-books and access to online article archive 64 million a year. There is a threefold increase in ten years. It is 38 million clean subscription fees, which the majority goes to the heavy magazine publishers.
– However, some contracts may increase even more, upwards of fifteen to twenty percent increase is not unusual, says Jette Guldborg Petersen, Chief Librarian Lund University.
– We are forced then to save in other areas.
“It’s a great big problem, but also difficult to access for individual universities. But we have written a petition and are in the lobbying groups to get a change. “Torbjörn von Schantz, president of Lund University.
– Do you want access to Cell Press, you can just buy the package from the publisher Elsevier, says Anna Lunden. And while the researchers believe that they must have the magazines. Therefore we have in ten or twenty years accepted these crazy price increases.
After all, the more money spent on subscriptions, the other costs pulled down.
– priority is given to what is called the b ig deals . Material from small publishers, individual titles, not purchased further in, says Anna Lunden.
– Many critics believe that the humanities and social sciences are losers, because the money goes to the journals in science and medicine, says Anna Lunden.
at Stockholm University has the money gone from the staff to subscriptions.
– We have got to move money within our budget. By digitizing much more efficient, but it has also been necessary to take from the personnel budget, says Wilhelm Widmark.
Small glossary
Scientific journal: A (network) -tidning which publishes new research. Are often extremely niche in a scientific field.
Peer review: A quality control system that other researchers constitutes a kind of committee to assess and approve the articles that get published in the journal.
Impact factor: a total, mathematical measure of how much the articles in a particular journal are cited by other researchers.
Open access: a collective term for research published in the forms so that it can be read freely by all.
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