[CvGmt News] [Fwd: On pricing, access, and the RWA]

buttazzo at dm.unipi.it buttazzo at dm.unipi.it
Mon Feb 27 17:59:36 CET 2012


Non so se anche voi avete ricevuto questo messaggio dalla Elsevier, ve lo
giro. E' la prova che la campagna di boicottaggio ha prodotto qualche
effetto. Vi segnalo l'iniziativa "Open archives" che fornisce accesso
libero agli articoli dopo qualche mese dalla pubblicazione; l'elenco delle
riviste "open" contiene diverse riviste di matematica e si trova su:

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/open_archives

Saluti, Giuseppe Buttazzo



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Oggetto: On pricing, access, and the RWA
Da:      "Elsevier Mathematics" <stjournals at mail.elsevier-alerts.com>
Data:    Lun, 27 Febbraio 2012 17:06
A:       "buttazzo at dm.unipi.it" <buttazzo at dm.unipi.it>
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A letter to the mathematics community.

We are writing to let you know of a series of changes that we are making
to how the Elsevier mathematics program will be run. Some of these are new
initiatives, and some reflect changes that we have been working on over a
longer period.

We have been listening actively to the community and we see a number of
issues that we need to address, not least being open to what the community
has to say:

Pricing
Mathematics journals published by Elsevier tend to be larger than those of
other publishers. On a price-per-article, or price-per-page level, our
prices are typically, but not always, lower than those of other
mathematics publishers.

Our target is for all of our core mathematics titles to be priced at or
below US$11 per article (equivalent to 50-60 cents per normal typeset
page) by next year, placing us below most University presses, some
societies and other commercial competitors. Where journals are more
expensive than this, we will lower our prices, as we already have in
recent years for journals such as the Journal of Algebra and Topology and
its Applications, among others.

We realize that this is just part of the concerns about pricing -and we
will seek to address concerns about the nature and composition of the
large discounted agreements, through which most Universities now access
journals - but addressing the base line pricing is a necessary first step.

Access and Open Archives
To make clear that we are committed to wider access, we have made the
archives of 14 core mathematics journals open, from four years after
publication, back to 1995, the year when we started publishing digitally.
All current and future papers featured in these journals will become free
to read, for subscribers and non subscribers alike. This initiative is
part of a number of open access publishing options we have available which
give researchers the freedom to choose to open their research beyond the
academic community. For more information about Elsevier's open access
options, visit
http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESJ001/qZVV9Z4F/xMMZ2Z4F.

We are a founding partner in Research4Life
http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESJ001/q8DMRZ4F/xMMZ2Z4F, a
public private partnership providing journal content to researchers in the
developing world. More than 1600 Elsevier journals, including our
mathematics titles, are available in more than 100 developing countries.

Our position on RWA
Elsevier has announced today that we are withdrawing our support for the
Research Works Act. In recent weeks, our support for the Act has caused
some in the community to question our commitment to serving the global
research community and ensuring the best possible access to research
publications and data. We have heard concerns from some Elsevier journal
authors, editors and reviewers that the Act would be seen as a step
backwards for expanding options for free and low cost public access to
scholarly literature. That was certainly not the intention of the
legislation or our intention in supporting it. Please read our full
statement at
http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESJ001/qQV49Z4F/xMMZ2Z4F online.

Moving forward
Now that we have explained the steps we have taken so far we want to
stress this is just the beginning.

We will create a scientific council for mathematics, to ensure that we are
working in tandem with the mathematics community to address feedback and
to give greater control and transparency to the community and we will
engage actively with leaders in a number of countries to ensure that our
mathematics program is meeting the needs of the community, globally and
locally.

There are many other issues where we wish to engage with the community,
including our efforts to improve digital rendering of mathematics, the use
and misuse of citation measures for the discipline and our efforts to
ensure high standard across all of our journals.

We welcome your views on these and all our efforts at:
mailto:mathematics at elsevier.com


Sincerely,

David Clark & Laura Hassink
Senior Vice Presidents, Physical Sciences



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