[Sigiii-l] Fwd: Hinari in SciDev.Net Weekly Update (7 - 13 February 2011)

[M.J. Menou]

Right Barry.

What in turn raises the issue of captation within the established reward 
system of fame recognition by commercial publishers.

Promoting OA without reconsidering the system and/or the ranking of 
journals is a dead end.

Michel


On 15/02/2011 10:05, Barry Mahon wrote:
> On 14/02/2011 17:08, M.J. Menou wrote:
>>> HINARI and the dream of free journal access
>>>
>
>>> A dispute over the HINARI scheme, which gives poor countries free
>>    >   access to journals, has exposed the sensitive border between aid and
>>    >   commerce, finds Yojana Sharma.
>>
>>    >
>> http://www.scidev.net/en/features/hinari-and-the-dream-of-free-journal-access.html
>
> A long time ago I questioned this so called deal. It was a laudable idea
> but the WHO was anxious to raise their profile and were supported by
> certain rather histrionic anti-publisher individuals, so they went ahead
> with an 'arrangement' - as is pointed out in the article (a good
> article, btw) - rather than an agreement. The result was probably
> predictable, as the market in the rich countries shrinks, the revenues
> need to be maintained.
>
> The wider question is whether the present structure of STM publishing
> can be maintained as OA in its various forms gains traction. The SOAP
> study by the EU indicates that academics like the OA idea but want to be
> published in (mostly commercial) high profile journals.
>
> Bye, Barry
> _______________________________________________
>


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