Skip to content

ACN - 101321555 | ABN - 39101321555

Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services Pty Ltd (AHRECS)

AHRECS icon
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Consultants
    • Services
  • Previous Projects
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Feeds
  • Contact Us
  • More
    • Request a Quote
    • Susbcribe to REM
    • Subscribe to VIP
Menu
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Consultants
    • Services
  • Previous Projects
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Feeds
  • Contact Us
  • More
    • Request a Quote
    • Susbcribe to REM
    • Subscribe to VIP
Exclude terms...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
AHRECS
Analysis
Animal ethics
Animal Ethics Committee
Animal handling
Animal housing
Animal Research Ethics
Animal Welfare
ANZCCART
Artificial Intelligence
Arts
Australia
Authorship
Belief
Beneficence
Big data
Big data
Biobank
Bioethics
Biomedical
Biospecimens
Breaches
Cartoon/Funny
Case studies
Clinical trial
Collaborative research
Conflicts of interest
Consent
Controversy/Scandal
Controversy/Scandal
Creative
Culture
Data management
Database
Dual-use
Essential Reading
Ethical review
Ethnography
Euthanasia
Evaluative practice/quality assurance
First People
Fraud
Gender
Genetics
Good practice
Guidance
Honesty
HREC
Human research ethics
Humanities
Institutional responsibilities
International
Journal
Justice
Links
Media
Medical research
Merit and integrity
Methodology
Monitoring
New Zealand
News
Online research
Peer review
Performance
Primary materials
Principles
Privacy
Protection for participants
Psychology
Publication ethics
Questionable Publishers
Research ethics committees
Research integrity
Research Misconduct
Research results
Researcher responsibilities
Resources
Respect for persons
Sample paperwork
sd
Serious Adverse Event
Social Science
SoTL
Standards
Supervision
Training
Vulnerability
x
Young people
Exclude news

Sort by

Animal Ethics Biosafety Human Research Ethics Research Integrity

(UK) UK hails ‘significant savings’ as Elsevier open access deal struck – Times Higher Education (Chris Havergal | March 2022)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on April 16, 2022
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, International, Journal, Research integrity, Research results

The Linked Original Item was Posted On March 23, 2022

Shelves of journals.

Deal includes prestigious Cell Press and Lancet journals

UK universities have signed their first open access deal with Elsevier, hailing “significant savings” on sector spend with the world’s biggest academic publisher.

We congratulate the UK for this deal, but scientific knowledge should not only be open but should be not-for-profit as well.  Earning massive profits while not paying authors or peer reviewers is not a trait of a reputable title.  Seeking millions of dollars for access is decidedly predatory.

The three-year agreement, bankrolling unlimited free-to-read publishing and access to subscription journals, was struck after the publisher agreed to cut the cost of its previous £50 million-a-year agreement.

Seven previous offers from Elsevier had been rebuffed. The terms of the agreed deal were not immediately available but Times Higher Education previously reported that UK institutions managed to obtain a slightly larger discount – about 10 per cent – to that obtained by the University of California, which said it had secured a 7 per cent reduction in costs, allowing for inflation, when it struck an open access deal last year.

The deal includes access to open access options in the Cell Press and Lancet families of journals.

Liam Earney, managing director of higher education and research at Jisc, which handled negotiations on behalf of UK universities, said the agreement “meets all the core requirements of the sector”.

UK hails ‘significant savings’ as Elsevier open access deal struck
Deal includes prestigious Cell Press and Lancet journals

SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED

Related Reading

(Germany) Munich Court Ruling Sides with Elsevier, ACS over ResearchGate – TheScientist (Jef Akst | March 2022)

(Australia) Australian open access push goes from green to gold – Times Higher Education (John Ross | November 2021)

(Australian) Open access switch picks up pace in Australia and New Zealand – Times Higher Education (John Ross | October 2021)

It is time to start paying peer reviewers – Times Higher Education (Adrian Furnham | October 2021)

(France) France to back not-for-profit diamond journals – Times Higher Education (David Matthews | July 2021)

(EU) Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One – Scholarly Kitchen (Robert Harington | February 2021)

The $450 question: Should journals pay peer reviewers? – Science (Jeffrey Brainard | March 2021)

The 450 Movement – James Heathers blog (James Heathers | September 2020)

The gold rush: Why open access will boost publisher profits – LSE Impact Blog (Shaun Khoo | June 2019)

Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? – Science (Tania Rabesandratana | January 2019)

It’s time to stand up to the academic publishing industry – UA (Adriane Macdonald & Nicole Eva | February 2018)

Is it time to nationalise academic publishers? – THE (David Matthews | March 2018)

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Links

Complaints against Research Ethics Monthly

Request a Takedown

Submission Guidelines

About the Research Ethics Monthly

About subscribing to the Research Ethics Monthly

A diverse group discussing a topic

Random selected image from the AHRECS library. These were all purchased from iStockPhoto. These are images we use in our workshops and Dr Allen used in the GUREM.

Research Ethics Monthly Receive copies of the Research Ethics Monthly directly
by email. We will never spam you.

  • Enter the answer as a word
  • Hidden
    This field is hidden and only used for import to Mailchimp
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
  • Home
  • Services
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
Menu
  • Home
  • Services
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Company
  • Terms Of Use
  • Copyright
  • Privacy Policy
Menu
  • Company
  • Terms Of Use
  • Copyright
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Map
Menu
  • Site Map

Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services Pty Ltd (AHRECS)

Facebook-f Twitter Linkedin-in