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and individual bibliometric indicators and do not care about the so called ‘status’ of the journal or publisher. While one could focus on many more
reasons as to why this pact has been disturbed, let’s restrict matters to the following: Being responsible for the operational
processes and magnetisation of academic content dissemination, academic publishers often took advantage of their privileged position. Irrespective of the complaints issued by the academic community, they enjoyed total control of the model and have used their considerable financial resources to defend themselves from alternative competing models (via legal actions or buy-outs, for example). When editorial boards have walked
out, they have been replaced. When academic societies have legal ownership of the journal, they have typically moved to another publisher, or have published themselves or in partnerships with other like-minded bodies, taking care that the new financial model ensures sustainability but does not support an unrealistic profit-making model. Book authors have turned to self-publishing en-masse (fed up of having to self-finance expensive book buy-backs), making certain that the dissemination of their
“Open access is one model that was created to circumnavigate the control of traditional academic publishers”
content is facilitated, while ensuring that they obtain the majority of the royalties in order to support further research instead of padding the pockets of academic publishing company shareholders. Several academics are so frustrated with the traditional model, that they have issued formal public pledges not to participate with some traditional publishers (eg www.
thecostofknowledge.com). Open access is one model that was
created to circumnavigate the control of traditional academic publishers. However, many academic publishers have pivoted quickly, ensuring that income flows have shifted from content users (OA content is free for users) to content generators (the very academics that publishers were supposed to serve!) To
realise the sustainability of their financial model, academic publishers have charged academics (via ‘article processing charges’, or ‘book processing charges’) prices that have essentially broken the ‘pact’ between publishers and academics. As providers of both content and the financial resources necessary to support the entire model, there is a shift in focus of control back to the academics, who are not willing to underwrite the expensive traditional publishing model for the benefit of the publishers, and who understand that it is they who control the financing and the creation of academic content. So what’s next? I anticipate that, after open access, the next biggest surge that academic publishing will witness will be in ‘independent publishing’ (otherwise known as ‘self-publishing’). If academics are financing the content and creating it, why shouldn’t they control pricing, determine and benefit by a division of profits that is skewed in their direction, and receive the resulting status which their work might generate? This is the future we are preparing for.
Daniel Berze is senior vice president for academic publishing at Glass Tree Academic Publishing/Lulu Press
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