Dear all, Apologies, I have noticed that my post included a link to the wrong blogpost. You can find the correct blog post here <https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/24/understanding-the-costs-of-scholarly-publishing-why-we-need-a-public-data-infrastructure-of-publishing-costs/> .
Best wishes, Danny Lämmerhirt On 25 October 2017 at 07:17, Danny Lämmerhirt <danny.lammerh...@okfn.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > > Open Knowledge International is pleased to announce a new blog post titled > ‘Understanding the cost of scholarly publishing - Why we need a public > data infrastructure for publishing costs > <https://blog.okfn.org/2017/08/08/new-research-understanding-the-drivers-of-license-proliferation/>’. > > > As we celebrate International Open Access Week > <http://www.openaccessweek.org/>, we wish to highlight the lack of > financial transparency in the scholarly publication system. How much is > paid for scholarly communication? Do current publishing models work in the > service of research? How can more financial data help to understand > problems in the publishing system? These questions are extremely hard to > assess at the moment, because we simply lack the data for it. > > In our blog post we make the case for a public data infrastructure of the > cost of scholarly publication. The post summarises evidence from different > studies to explain the drivers of financial opacity, its detrimental > effects on scholarly publication, and outlines steps that we can > collectively take towards a public data infrastructure. > > Since Open Knowledge International is planning substantial work in this > field, we would love to invite your feedback. Maybe you have thoughts on > how you would like to move the topic forward? Maybe you plan activities in > this area? > > > We would love to learn how your upcoming plans and interests align with > this topic. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us and email myself > and Sander van der Waal (Head of Network and Partnerships) at > resea...@okfn.org. We are happy to arrange a short call. > > > In any case, please do feel free to share our blog post widely in your > networks. > > Warm wishes, > > Danny Lämmerhirt > > > -- > *Danny Lämmerhirt* > Researcher & Research Coordinator at Open Knowledge International > <https://okfn.org/> > > Email: *danny.lammerh...@okfn.org <danny.lammerh...@okfn.org>* > > Twitter: @danlammerhirt <https://twitter.com/DanLammerhirt> > > Skype: danny.lammerhirt1 > > http://okfn.org | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | Facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> > -- *Danny Lämmerhirt* Researcher & Research Coordinator at Open Knowledge International <https://okfn.org/> Email: *danny.lammerh...@okfn.org <danny.lammerh...@okfn.org>* Twitter: @danlammerhirt <https://twitter.com/DanLammerhirt> Skype: danny.lammerhirt1 http://okfn.org | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/>
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