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| Title: | Open-Access Scholarly Publishing in Economic Perspective |
| Authors: | Getz, Malcolm |
| Keywords: | Open-Access
Scholarly Publishing |
| Issue Date: | 11-Jun-2004 |
| Publisher: | Internet-First University Press |
| Abstract: | What is the prospect for migrating scholarly journals from paper to digital formats in a
way that lowers university expenditures? Although many journals are published digitally,
at least so far, the digital format complements paper, increasing university expenditures.
Open-access publications that are free to readers and financed by publication fees paid by
authors and their agents may both lower costs and allow scholarship to reach a larger
audience. However, gains to universities may depend on open-access being qualityassured
and controlled by not-for-profit publishers. Potential savings for a typical US
research library might be on the order of $2.3 million per year even as the same level of
effort goes to reviewing and editing published articles as at present. To launch the
initiative, provosts might adopt policies to support publication fees and not-for-profit
publishers might invest in start up funds for editing and marketing open-access journals. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1813/177 |
| Appears in Collections: | Sustainable Models for University-based Scholarly Publishing Workshop
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