On Friday, April 17, the UO Libraries hosted a talk by Carl T. Bergstrom, a University of Washington evolutionary biologist and well-known analyst of the scholarly communications industry. Bergstrom’s talk is entitled “The Structure and Economics of Scholarly Publishing.” Bergstrom is an expert on the economics of journal publishing and has developed a tool called the “eigenfactor,” which provides an alternative to the impact factors currently used to rank journals.
Bergstrom also discussed the sky-rocketing rates libraries and others have to pay for subscriptions to scholarly journals. Subscription rates have quickly outpaced library budgets for journal acquisitions and have limited their ability to provide university faculty members with ready access to journal articles.
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