Dear friends, Indeed it is a good news to all academic librarians in india. It is high time that UGC, AICTE and INFLIBNET takes the right step to stop the monopoly of copyright holding by these commercial publishers for the knowledge generated by our research community. There is no point in just talking about open access; all universities need to adopt OA policies in letter and spirit. Dr Koteswara Rao Former librarian UoH Sent from my iPhone

On 13 Jun 2020, at 7:35 pm, Dr Anand Byrappa wrote:

Dear All,

Thought of bringing this news item to your notice.

MIT ends negotiations with Elsevier- https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/06/12/mit-ends-negotiations-e...

It’s interesting to see who blinks first!. If MIT wins, that will be a big win for scholarly publishing world - particularly for authors and libraries. This outcome may change negotiation scenario of all consortia and institutions across the world.

Let’s wish MIT to win this....if they win, The institutional repositories will be stronger and more impactful.

Best Regards,

Anand.

*Anand Byrappa Ph.D.*

Head - Office of Data and Library

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Bangalore 560012. INDIA.

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Dear Anand and friends of the LIS Community. This is an interesting on-going development across several global Ivy League universities. The positive side of the developments in MIT's negotiation is that it has refused to relinquish its authors' copyright on papers they publish. This will be the beginning of the end of authors surrendering their exclusive copyright to journal publishers. It will also be a game-changer in the scholarly journal publishing economics of the past on which the journal publishing evolved during the last century. .

From a neutral view, these developments have not yet opened up definitive directions for a sustainable development of alternative journal publishing model as yet. Authors or their institutes will have to shell out US$ 2,000-3,500 to publish in a well cited journal. Even after close to two decades of OA movement which has taken deeper roots, there is no viable business model in the sight. With emotions at over-play in the scholarly community about OA on which authors are not exactly wholly united, is the situation turning out to be an "I win you loose game" from either side? It is time OA enthusiasts and advocates seriously start working on a viable business model for OA as a definitive option, be it Plan S or an unknown Play Y. Any business model will require partnership with commercial agencies to manage the model for successful evolution. As we realise today in the midst of Covid crisis, besides health, economics is at the centre of everything we want and we do.

Currently, according to Heather Piwowar, the co-founder of UnpayWall, 31% of all journal articles are estimated to be OA with the rest behind paywalls. Green OA constitutes 4%, which is the contribution of all the 4,000+ IRs in the world. Gold, Hybrid and embargoed OA contribute 27%, a good part of which is managed by commercial publishing. (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/795310v1.full.pdf) A disruptive model that has the potential to succeed can perhaps emerge by breaking the idea of journal into to something else through an innovative process. What can Libraries do in concrete terms in this direction? N. V. Sathyanarayana Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore. ________________________________ From: LIS-Forum on behalf of Dr Anand Byrappa Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 1:01 PM To: lis-forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] MIT ends negotiations with Elsevier- a turning point in copyright retention ? Dear All, Thought of bringing this news item to your notice. MIT ends negotiations with Elsevier- https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/06/12/mit-ends-negotiations-e... It’s interesting to see who blinks first!. If MIT wins, that will be a big win for scholarly publishing world - particularly for authors and libraries. This outcome may change negotiation scenario of all consortia and institutions across the world. Let’s wish MIT to win this....if they win, The institutional repositories will be stronger and more impactful. Best Regards, Anand. *Anand Byrappa Ph.D.* Head - Office of Data and Library Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore 560012. INDIA. Office Phone: 91-80-2293 2408 -- Thanks, Anand -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum