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开放存取出版每年可为荷兰节省1.33亿欧元
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开放存取出版每年可为荷兰节省1.33亿欧元
据2009年6月10日乌得勒支报道，受SURF基金资助，来自维多利亚大学战略经济研究中心的澳大利亚经济学家John Houghton教授的研究表明，如果每一篇科技和学术论文都能够开放获取，每年将可以为荷兰节省1.33亿欧元（EUR 133 million）。数据源自SURF基金会提交给荷兰教育文化和科学部的一份研究报告（注：entitled Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation）。
时下，大学与科研机构每年要花费数百万欧元来获取和访问科技学术论文。而许多小型科研机构都无力承担昂贵的访问授权费用。如果全球推行开放存取模式，就可以增加研究人员和公众对科研成果信息的访问。研究报告比较了3种出版模型。开放存取模式具有最大的优势，由于研究机构或资助研究的机构支付了出版费，论文就可以免费获取了。采用开放存取模式每年可以为何兰节省1.33亿欧元。即使世界上只有荷兰一个国家采用开放存取模式，并且继续为期刊访问付费，每年仍然可以节省3千7百万欧元。研究还表明，开放存取提供了基于授权的传统出版的切实可行的替代模式。
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"Open Access publication can save the Netherlands up to 133 million euros"
Australian researcher puts a figure on benefits of Open Access to scientific and scholarly information.
Utrecht, 10 June 2009 – If every scientific and scholarly article were publicly available, it would save the Netherlands EUR 133 million a year. That figure is given by the Australian economist Prof. John Houghton in a study that SURFfoundation presented today to the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
At the moment, research universities and “universities of applied sciences” [hogescholen] pay millions of euros every year for access to scientific and scholarly publications.
Businesses, smaller hogescholen, and other organisations often cannot afford the expensive licences needed for access. If the “Open Access” model were to be applied globally, there would be increased access to research results for both researchers and the public at large.
The study Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation compares three publication models. The greatest advantage is offered by the Open Access model, which means that the research institution or the party financing the research pays for publication and the article is then freely accessible. Adopting this model could lead to an annual saving of EUR 133 million. Even if the Netherlands were the only country to adopt this publication model and continued to pay for licences to access periodicals, there would still be a saving of EUR 37 million.
The report concludes that the advantages would not just be in the long term; in the transitional phase too, more open access to research results would have positive effects.
The director of SURFfoundation, Wim Liebrand, welcomed the results of Prof. Houghton’s study: “The study makes clear that Open Access offers a realistic alternative to the traditional publisher’s model based on licences.
SURFfoundation has been working for some years now with publishers, authors, scientists, and scholars to develop publication models that are more cost-effective. Prof. Houghton’s report is a big boost for that work.”
The study was commissioned by SURFfoundation and forms part of a series of similar studies carried out in Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom. A survey will soon be published of the advantages that Open Access publication offers in those countries.
Title: Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation
Authors: John Houghton, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, and Jos de Jonge & Marcia van Oploo, EIM and Research voor Beleid, Zoetermeer
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