[LTER-im] FYI: Fwd: Is your lab producing lots of data which is going unpublished?

[Wade Sheldon]

We’re on the wrong end of this business model! Yikes.

Wade


> On Aug 23, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Corinna Gries <cgries at wisc.edu> wrote:
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> That is interesting. Last I saw from them they were offering help with data archiving for free. Guess, it didn’t take them long to realize how much work it is.
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> Corinna
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> From: im <im-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> On Behalf Of John Porter
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 2:00 PM
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> Subject: [LTER-im] FYI: Fwd: Is your lab producing lots of data which is going unpublished?
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> I thought I'd share this interesting email I received from Springer Nature. The most interesting point I thought was that you could publish your dataset for only $735 per dataset, as compared to the normal $1,290 per dataset charge. 
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> Using that standard, the "regular price" for the site data in EDI would be $7,998,000. Throw in all the remote sensing data etc. and it would cost $55,255,860 ......
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> Just thought you'd like to know that your work is valued!
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> -John Porter
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