Answering to second part of the question by Suresh, "what is the impact of OA content on library budgets". There are many publications and models can be found and emerging models. One of our presentation can be found with some information of libraries and consortium should approach this. "Hybrid journals contains articles behind a pay-wall to be subscribed, as well as papers made open access when author pays article processing charge (APC). In such cases, an Institution will end up paying twice and Publishers tend to double-dip. Discussions and pilot models are emerging on pricing options, such as “offset pricing,” [where APCs are adjusted or discounted with subscription costs as vouchers or reductions in next year subscriptions, APCs beyond the subscription costs are modestly capped etc] and thus reduce Institutions’ cost. This presentation will explain different models available and how can we attain a transparent costing structure, where the scholarly community can feel the fairness in Publishers’ pricing mechanisms. Though most of the offset systems are developed through national level or consortium level negotiations, experience of individual institutions, like KAUST that subscribe to large e-journals collections, is important in making right decisions on saving Institutes costs and support openness in scholarly communications." Link: http://repository.kaust.edu.sa/kaust/handle/10754/617078 ---------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, MLIS, PhD, MSILS (UK), Interim Library Director, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, www.kaust.edu.sa Residence: +966-128-025-690, On Sunday, October 23, 2016 5:12 PM, Koteswara Rao Mamidi <mk-rao@hotmail.com> wrote: The irony is that one group of LIS fraternity is publishing their papers in these predatory and dubious journals while the other group of people are making hue and cry about these journals. Is this not double standard? Koteswara Rao Retd. Librarian, UOH Sent from my iPhone
On 22-Oct-2016, at 8:40 PM, Ramachandran Guruprasad <gprasad61@gmail.com> wrote:
As simple as searching for a needle in the Haystack.
Warm regards, Dr Guruprasad
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Suresh Narayanan <suresh@bridgepeople.in> wrote:
Dear All,
Greeting.
Of recent, there has been an explosion of FREE to access and PAY to publish business models in the STM domain.
I have been observing a growing set of new metrics that are being put in place by the new business model publishers. Most importantly, various websites are publishing details of predator publishers and some names are quite common to all of us.
Would appreciate to understand the stand of senior library professionals on the topic and what is the impact of such content on library budgets and research quality?
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