SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS MARKET AND OPEN-ACCESS POLICIES

The actual policies on the scientific publications market are perceived, both by governmental factors and scientific knowledge consumers, as generators of obstacles which restrict the dynamics of knowledge flows and the processes related to the efficient valorization of knowledge. natural solution in this situation would be to define a single publication cost, transfer this cost upwards the value chain to the producer and charge it on the research project budget and in the same time free the access to the published research results. This approach is rational, because it identifies the publication of research results as an inseparable part of the research process, the publication costs being thus transformed into eligible research costs.