Timeline for Reference for annual journal subscription costs paid per university?
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 20:48 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 22, 2016 at 21:54 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 21:48 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2014 at 17:34 | vote | accept | Franck Dernoncourt | ||
| Oct 14, 2014 at 8:34 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | MATLAB and NAG (two brands of computational software) also adopt this shady practice of negotiating their prices individually with the institutions and keeping them secret. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 6:11 | comment | added | ff524 | Huh, looks like your $10M/year estimate was on target ($9,248,115 for Harvard in 2008, $16,391,638 in 2012). | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 4:02 | answer | added | David Ketcheson | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 2:53 | comment | added | Cape Code | Another thing that is unclear about Harvard's numbers is that they were most likely released as a leverage in a negotiation with large publishers. They preceded a bogus threat to 'suspend subscriptions'. I'm at Harvard and can access all journals from the big publishers via the library, and they most likely never had the serious intention to deprive their researchers from accessing the best journals. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 1:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/521838981571301376 | ||
| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:52 | answer | added | Anonymous Mathematician | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:46 | answer | added | ff524 | timeline score: 26 | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @AnonymousMathematician I totally agree, I was expecting over $10M/year. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:37 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | By the way, the $3.5M figure from the Guardian is based on an very unclear Harvard memo, which stated that journals from "certain providers" cost Harvard nearly $3.75M in 2012 and that in 2010 the corresponding costs were 20% of the periodical subscription budget. They didn't explain which providers those were, or what fraction of the periodical budget might be considered academic journals, so this leaves things rather uncertain. But the total for journals at Harvard is almost certainly higher than $3.5M. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:29 | history | edited | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:24 | history | asked | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |