RE: Follow up of EC-commissioned "Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe" (fwd)

["Hunsucker, R.L." <R.L.Hunsucker@uva.nl>]

Stevan Harnad wrote :

> Research is not done, or funded, in order to support the
> publishing industry.

That's indeed not often (but may occasionally be) a primary
incentive.

It is, however, often a secondary or implicit motivation.

Thus, I'd say that the dynamics are less cut-and-dried than
here represented.

> ... that researchers (and their institutions and funders)
> are both the *providers* of research and the *users* of
> research (in generating further research, ...

It remains questionable, for one thing, just how typical is
the situation in which the ultimately published version of
research in the natural sciences is what the productive
researchers are in practice using in generating further
research or sometimes perhaps even "applications".

- L. Hunsucker
Bibliotheek, U. v. Amsterdam