From: "Jean-Claude Guédon" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:39:04 -0500

Rick Anderson:  And let me reiterate that saying “publishing is part
of the research
process” doesn’t magically make research funding cover the subsequent
costs of publishing an account of the research. You can redirect
research funding towards the costs of publication (and thus spend less
on the former and more on the latter), but you can’t make one dollar
underwrite both a dollar’s worth of research and a dollar’s worth of
publishing.


JCD:  The issue is not magic; it is about locating scholarly
publishing where it belongs. The specificity of scholarly publishing
is not found in some curious space located beyond research; it is
found quite easily once it is well understood that scholarly
publishing is very different from commercial publishing. Without
scholarly publishing, research is largely condemned to sterile
solipsism.

As for the zero-sum game adumbrated above, it assumes that money can
come from strictly defined "research" budgets only, and no other
source. This is inaccurate. Libraries, for example, are involved in
the research process, and part of their budget also supports research
through acquisitions and licenses. Some of that money can be
redirected, probably more efficiently, toward publishing functions.
This moves simply requires new alliances, new partners.

Jean-Claude Guédon