Addressing the soaring cost of scholarly journals

Information sciences expert Vincent Larivière to talk about the current crisis in academic publishing. On May 27, Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR) will host a presentation by one of the country’s leading experts on scholarly publishing. Vincent Larivière will discuss his ground-breaking study into academic journal use at Université de Montréal (UdeM) which combined usage statistics and citation indexes with a qualitative survey of faculty on their preferred journals. The result was a paradigm shift in the UdeM’s negotiations with publishers, with UdeM most recently keeping only 6.6 per cent of one publisher’s journals which accounted for 42 per cent of the downloads. Learn more about this talk The presentation is open to the public.

Location:

Murray Fraser Hall 2370

Speaker:

Vincent Larivière, Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at the Université de Montréal, has been examining the evolution of the academic journal publishing system. His findings show that, over the last 25 years, the prices of scientific journals have increased 400 per cent.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/addressing-soaring-cost-scholarly-journals