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Final Project Report to Atlantic Philanthropies: Creating an Open Access Paradigm for Scholarly Publishing

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dc.contributor.authorCooke, J. Robert
dc.contributor.authorKing, Kenneth M.
dc.date.accessioned2006-08-15T19:12:14Z
dc.date.available2006-08-15T19:12:14Z
dc.date.issued2006-08-15T19:12:14Z
dc.descriptionThe Internet-First University Press (DVD and perfect bound copies also are available via e-mail: digital@cornell.edu). A Zipped version of all of the files related to this report can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3459en_US
dc.description.abstractThis is the final report for the Atlantic Philanthropies funded study, "Creating an Open Access Paradigm for Scholarly Publishing" (October 2002 thru June 2006). The DSpace digital repository, created at the MIT library, was implemented at Cornell University as one of the initial DSpace sites. We explored its usage as a repository and as a publishing distribution platform for low-cost (royalty-free) open access publishing that encompasses all disciplines and is openly accessible worldwide. We were especially interested in exploring how the Internet might be used to fundamentally improve communication among universities and with the rest of society. We commissioned some financial studies and held some workshops. We describe some models for lowering costs for university presses, libraries, and the universities that exploit attributes of online publishing that were not feasible with a paper-based model. In particular, we urge a fresh look at the system, not individual campus, level for potential savings. We explored ways to encourage a shift in the faculty's willingness to effectively utilize this digital repository -- including a shift in emphasis from archiving to include online publishing. We published traditional materials, but also gave strong emphasis to multimedia materials as an alternative to print volumes that are expensive for publishing limited audience content. Video, until quite recently, has been very expensive, but that barrier can now be easily overcome. To encourage faculty participation we provided print-on-demand perfect binding and DVDs as a higher resolution (but more expensive and requiring a user fee) service. Eventually, we think, there will be a growing acceptance by faculty for online searching and browsing, with a need only for paying a user fee only for intensively used materials or otherwise for higher resolution presentations. Our content can be found at: http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/index.jsp http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/62 http://ifup.cit.cornell.eduen_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/3460
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectDSpace at Cornellen_US
dc.subjectScholarly Publishingen_US
dc.subjectOpen Access Publishingen_US
dc.subjectdigital publishingen_US
dc.subjectInternet First University Pressen_US
dc.subjectIFUPen_US
dc.subjectonline publishingen_US
dc.subjectprint-on-demanden_US
dc.subjectwhite papersen_US
dc.subjecteconomics of publishingen_US
dc.subjectpublishing alternativesen_US
dc.subjectInternet publishingen_US
dc.subjectvideo publishingen_US
dc.subjectOpen access workshopen_US
dc.subjectsustainable publishing modelsen_US
dc.subjectdatabase of metadataen_US
dc.titleFinal Project Report to Atlantic Philanthropies: Creating an Open Access Paradigm for Scholarly Publishingen_US
dc.typebooken_US

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