Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 on Nostr: universities can often end big deals with publishers to safe money. Sure, after the ...
universities can often end big deals with publishers to safe money. Sure, after the end of the subscription, you will have to pay for subscriptions to individual journals, ILL, etc. But even then, evidence shows it very often is (a lot) cheaper.
https://unsub.org/ is a service that can help universities with their calculations, and they have supported big universities in doing those calculations
#openscience #expensivePublishers
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