{"id":564,"date":"2014-09-25T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-09-25T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:54:10","slug":"radio-nz-reports-on-extortionate-tactics-of-research-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/radio-nz-reports-on-extortionate-tactics-of-research-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio NZ reports on &#8220;extortionate&#8221; tactics of research publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>$55 million &#8211; that&#8217;s the figure Radio NZ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/national\/255421\/research-publishers-costing-taxpayers\">has reported<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0NZ universities and\u00a0Crown Research Institutes pay in subscription fees to academic publishers. The University of Auckland alone\u00a0spent almost $15m &#8212; with\u00a0Otago spending the second-highest amount of $8.4 &#8212; on access to\u00a0journals that for the most part comprises work done and reviewed by academics around the world for free, after signing their copyright over to the publishers.<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/morningreport\/audio\/20150985\/extortionate-tactics-of-research-publishers-cost-taxpayers-millions\">report from\u00a0Morning Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$55 million &#8211; that&#8217;s the figure Radio NZ has reported\u00a0that\u00a0NZ universities and\u00a0Crown Research Institutes pay in subscription fees to academic publishers. The University of Auckland alone\u00a0spent almost $15m &#8212; with\u00a0Otago spending the second-highest amount of $8.4 &#8212; on access to\u00a0journals that for the most part comprises work done and reviewed by academics around the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,10561,10560,10557,10584],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-government","tag-nz","tag-open-access","tag-open-publishing","tag-open-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}