[Irtalk] Door 'slammed on open access' to academic work | Sci-Tech | Science | M&G

[Hilton Gibson]

South African universities and government agencies have banded together
against international academic publisher Elsevier’s new hosting and sharing
regime, which they argue “curtails scientific progress and places
unnecessary constraints on delivering the benefits of research back to the
public”.

*They join thousands of other institutions around the world – including
Oxford and Yale universities – in signing the Confederation of Open Access
Repositories’ petition against the new regulations that extend
republication embargoes for up to three years.*

It is expensive for South African libraries and nonacademics to get access
to knowledge that is generated by South African tax money if they have been
published in international journals, with library bills for academic
journals often running into millions of rands. It is difficult to quantify
how much South Africa’s universities and institutions pay to publish
research, and to get access to research by local and international
colleagues.

http://mg.co.za/article/2015-06-25-door-slammed-on-open-access-to-academic-work
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