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Groundbreaking deal makes large number of German studies free to public
Three years ago, a group of German libraries, universities, and research institutes teamed up to force the three largest scientific publishers to offer an entirely new type of contract. In exchange for an annual lump sum, they wanted a nationwide agreement making papers by German authors free to read around the world, while giving researchers in Germany access to all of the publishers' online content.
Today, after almost 3 years of negotiations, the consortium, named Project DEAL, can finally claim a success: This morning, it signed a deal with Wiley, an academic publisher headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Under the 3-year contract, scientists at more than 700 academic institutions will be able to access all of Wiley's academic journals back to 1997 and to publish open access in all of Wiley's journals. The annual fee will be based on the number of papers they publish in Wiley journals—about 10,000 in previous years, says one of the negotiators, physicist Gerard Meijer of the Fritz Haber Institute, a Max Planck Society institute here.
A precise formula for the fee has been agreed on but at Wiley's request will only be made public, along with other details in the contract, in 30 days, Meijer says. However, the total payment should be roughly what German institutes have been paying Wiley in subscription fees so far, Meijer says.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ayn Anonymous on Friday January 18 2019, @11:46AM (4 children)
F this deal.
This publisher system has to die.
Support Sci-Hub & Library Genesis, the true solution.
http://sci-hub.tech/ [sci-hub.tech] & http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ [lib.rus.ec]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 18 2019, @03:19PM (3 children)
That's like cursing HBO and Showtime, then proposing use of The Pirate Bay. While the system may not be great, proposing the use of a system that feeds off another, isn't going to help a whole lot. Assuming what actually care about is the content. Not the idea, that you could possibly have to pay someone for something.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18 2019, @04:40PM (2 children)
What's wrong with the Pirate Bay ?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18 2019, @04:46PM
It mines XMR and serves indecent advertisments.
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Sunday January 20 2019, @06:05AM
It's going to bring about the immanentisation of the eschaton via the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Those fools have no idea what sort of forces they're playing with.