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Monday, January 07, 2002
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/218/guedon.html Beyond Core Journals and Licenses: The Paths to Reform Scientific Publishing by Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal Introduction Thirty years after having been detected, the serial pricing crisis now reveals itself as a deep transformation in the communication system of science, and not simply as a regrettable side consequence of apparently uncontrollable external factors, such as currency fluctuations or increases in the cost of living. More recently, the site licensing of online journals has brought about so many changes in the relationship between readers/users, libraries, and publishers that expressions such as "paradigm shift" or even "revolution" (or rather counterrevolution) are easy to marshal. In effect, and this is the basic premise of this paper, the system of science communication has been reengineered twice to the sole benefit of major, international publishers, with grievous consequences for the public and open spaces of knowledge defended by libraries. Meanwhile, research scientists in rich, elite institutions have remained largely unaware or indifferent to this whole situation, as the price spiral of journal costs does not appear to affect them directly. This is a shortsighted viewpoint, of course, as I shall try to demonstrate, but it is not widely recognized among research scientists....
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