Australian and New Zealand universities are teaming up to strike better open access deals with research publishers, in one of the first tests of how an alliance model could unlock more taxpayer funded work.
The unified position will improve bargaining power against major publishers in upcoming negotiations and is expected to result in a greater volume of research making it to open access next year.
“Major academic publishers regularly post profit margins of 30-40 per cent,” Deakin University Librarian Hero Macdonald told InnovationAus.com.
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