Study on scientific publishing in Europe

This study provides a deeper understanding of the issues around practices and costs of scholarly publications, offers an analysis of the situation, and proposes advice for policy actions. The report documents the pervasive lack of information on contracts and deals with publishers and recommends specific actions, mostly required on the side of the member states, institutions and libraries to enhance transparency regarding the costs of publishing. These include, among others, publishing the contracts and working on making available structured information about them.