{"id":724,"date":"2015-07-24T04:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T04:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/?p=724"},"modified":"2015-07-30T04:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T04:14:20","slug":"oligopoly-of-academic-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/oligopoly-of-academic-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"More than half of research published by top five publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"

An analysis of 45 million research documents has found that the top five most prolific publishers account for more than 50% of all papers published in 2013. The digital era precipitated a massive shift from a proliferation of research publishers to an oligopoly of a small handful. This influence is particularly evident in the social sciences (where the share is more like 70%) and less so in the humanities (20%); the Natural and Medical Sciences lie around the half-way point largely because of the independence of the major scholarly socities.<\/p>\n

The paper concludes that this massive increase in influence has been largely responsible for the massive rises in profits of these publsihers, without a concomitant increase in added value to what has been described as \u2018the most profitiable obsolete technology in history<\/a>.’<\/p>\n

It also concludes that only the academic community – having sold off its intellectual capital at an amazing rate (see image at the bottom of this post) – has the ability to reverse this the ‘acaedmic spring’ of the open access \/ open science movements.<\/p>\n

Read The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era<\/a> in full (and open access) at PLoS ONE.<\/p>\n

\"journal.pone.0127502.g002\"<\/a>Number of journals changing from small to big publishers, and big to small publishers per year of change in the Natural and Medical Sciences and Social Sciences & Humanities | CC BY Larivi\u00e8re et al (2015) | doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0127502.g002<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An analysis of 45 million research documents has found that the top five most prolific publishers account for more than 50% of all papers published in 2013. The digital era precipitated a massive shift from a proliferation of research publishers to an oligopoly of a small handful. This influence is particularly evident in the social […]<\/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":[10560,10557,160],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open-access","tag-open-publishing","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}