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The serials crisis and open access: a white paper for the Commission on Research, Virginia Tech - E-LIS

sennoma — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:52:00 -0500

The open access movement is an attempt to free scholarly communication from restrictions on access, control, and cost, and to enable benefits such as data mining and increased citations. While open access is approached here from the problem of subscription inflation, open access is not merely a library issue; it affects the availability of research to current and future students and scholars. This white paper offers an introduction to open access as well as a look at its current development. Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.money, publishing, serialscrisis,

Open and Shut?: Open Access: Who pays? How much?

sennoma — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:49:00 -0500

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University of Toronto Press - Journal Article

sennoma — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:43:00 -0500

Journal prices have long been a matter of controversy. Lacking has been any objective information on costs that could be used to judge whether price increases have been justified by rising costs. Using a rare, publicly available set of data for the American Economic Review, the premier journal in economics, this article normalizes costs for number of issues per annum, number of pages per issue, and print quantities per issue to construct an index for the costs of producing this journal. It shows that costs have in fact increased more slowly than the general rate of inflation and argues that the cost experience of this journal provides a reference point for academic journals generally. Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, publishing, scholarlycommunication,

OAN: Sciyo Becomes the First Academic Publisher to Introduce Usage-based Author Royalties

sennoma — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:21:00 -0500

Sciyo Becomes the First Academic Publisher to Introduce Usage-based Author Royalties, press release, December 18, 2009. Authors publishing with Sciyo in 2010 will be the first in academic publishing to receive royalties based on the number of downloads of their publication. For every 10 downloads, 0.2 euro will be accredited to author’s account on an annual basis. Sciyo operates under the open access publishing model, replacing subscription fees with publication fees paid by the authors or their funders. All Sciyo’s publications are available online, free to view, download, print, copy and share under Creative Commons Attribution License and without sign up, which increases their visibility and citation rates. Author royalties will be accredited directly to the author's account, with the exception of royalties under 100 euro, which will be deducted from the author's publishing fee head on the next time he or she decides to publish with Sciyo. ... Sciyo's publishing fee of 470 euro is among the lowest in the open access publishing industry. ... Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.money, scholarlycommunication, publishing.models,

Open Access Submission Fees « putting down a marker

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:11:00 -0500

Mark Ware Consulting has been commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (www.knowledge-exchange.info), a partnership of JISC (UK), SURF (Netherlands), DEFF (Denmark) and DfG (Germany), to conduct a study into the feasibility of submission fees in open access journals (i.e. as distinct from publication fees). Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa.businessmodels, oa,

Matrix Analysis (SPARC)

sennoma — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:54:00 -0400

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Income Models for Supporting Open Access (SPARC)

sennoma — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:09:00 -0400

Developing a sound business model is a critical concern of publishers considering open-access distribution. Selecting the model appropriate to a particular journal will depend not only on the expense hurdle that must be cleared, but also on the publisher’s mission objectives, size, business management resources, risk tolerance, tax status, and institutional or corporate affiliation. This Web site and accompanying guide provide an overview of income models currently being used to support the open-access distribution of peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journals. These resources will be a useful tool both for publishers exploring new potential sources of income and for libraries weighing where to direct meager library funds. Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, publishing.models,

10 years of open access at BioMed Central

sennoma — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:37:00 -0400

"Average publisher revenue per STM article, under the traditional subscription-based model, is around GBP3000 ($4700)." Tagged by sennoma under oaos.talks, BioMedCentral, mattcockerill, oa.money,

Chemistry | Caltech Library Services

sennoma — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:53:00 -0400

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Hearing on: H.R. 6845, the "Fair Copyright in Research Works Act"

sennoma — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:08:00 -0400

This is the hearing where Zerhouni estimated the NIH support for publication charges at 80 to 100 million/year Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa.numbers, oa.mandates,

Web Access to Traditionally Published Journals

sennoma — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:13:00 -0400

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Entomological Society of America electronic publication

sennoma — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:13:00 -0400

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Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovatino in Communication Paradigms and Technologies; 13th Intl Conf on Electronic Publishing

sennoma — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:06:00 -0400

Connecting Readers with Open Access Resources: The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group Building a Digital Library with Learning Materials Creation of an International Digital Library of Manuscripts: seamless access to data from heterogeneous resources (ENRICH Project) Exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models A Journal on the Web: What We Are Not, What We Do Not Want Understanding how Students and Faculty REALLY use E-Books: The UK National E-Books Observatory A publishing system to extract and represent the knowledge content of scientific articles on Health Science in machine-processable format Self-Archiving in practice: What do the researchers say and is there any pain alleviation? Scoping Study on Issues Relating to Quality-Control Measures within the Scholarly Communication Process Overlay Publications: a functional overview of the concept The PROBADO-Framework: Content-Based Queries for non-textual Documents PEER: Publishing and the Ecology of European Research PLoS One: background, future development, and article-level metrics Targeted knowledge: interaction and rich user experience towards a scholarly communication that “lets” Economic sustainability during transition: the case of scholarly publishing Automated Support for a Collaborative System to Organize a Collection using Facets Experimenting with the Trial of a Research Data Audit: Some Preliminary Findings about Data Types, Access to Data and Factors for Long Term Preservation Scientific publications on Web 3.0 Integrating Online Publications and Scholarly Discourse in the Context of Digital Libraries Incorporating Semantics and Metadata as Part of the Article Authoring Process Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals Building a Semantic Digital Library for the Municipality of Milan Rethinking Critical Editions of Fragmentary Texts by Ontologies Bibliometric factor maps for knowledge discovery in digital libraries Digital Futures: Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.money, oa.numbers,

Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications: Report of a Symposium

sennoma — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:56:00 -0400

The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) Journals and Its Implications addressed five key areas. The first two areas addressed--costs of publication and publication business models and revenue--focused on the STM publishing enterprise as it exists today and, in particular, how it has evolved since the advent of electronic publishing. The following section reviewed copyright and licensing issues of concern to the authors and to universities. The final two sessions looked toward the future, specifically, at what publishing may be in the future and what constitutes a publication in the digital environment. Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, publishing, publishing.models,

Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation

sennoma — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:36:00 -0400

This study examines the costs and potential benefits of alternative models for scientific and scholarly publishing in the Netherlands. It is a follow-up of the Australian study ‘Research Communication Costs, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits’ (Houghton et al. 2006) and the UK/JISC study ‘Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models’. Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, readthis, johnhoughton,

Shifting Costs in the Journal Publishing World - The Serials Librarian

sennoma — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:49:00 -0400

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» The death of scholarly journals? The Occasional Pamphlet

sennoma — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:36:00 -0400

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OAN: Peer review without assignment of copyright

sennoma — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:30:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, leowaaijers, peerreview,

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » ARL Board Passes Resolution against Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses in Publisher/Vendor Agreements

sennoma — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:50:00 -0400

Note to self: "an initiative being undertaken by Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara, Paul Courant, University of Michigan, and Preston McAfee, Cal Tech, to acquire information on bundled site-license contracts" Tagged by sennoma under oa.money,

eCommons@Cornell: Report of the CUL Task Force on Open Access Publishing Presented to the Cornell University Library Management Team August 9, 2004.

sennoma — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:44:00 -0400

The Task Force on Open Access Publishing was convened by Ross Atkinson in January 2004.The purpose of the Task Force is to study the information available on Open Access publishing and to provide the CUL Library Management Team with a report that addressed specific questions. Alternative publishing models that would offer free and unimpeded access to scholarship promise both a more affordable system for academic institutions and their libraries and a more democratic one for readers and authors. The present Report examines both aspects of the Open Access promise and offers recommendations for CUL's involvement in the arena of Open Access publishing. >>CLARIFICATION: This Report of the Cornell University Library's Task Force on Open Access represents the Task Force's initial examination into the Open Access publishing model and its impact on the Library. On October 7, 2004 the Library Management Team reviewed the report and requested additional analysis, particularly with regard to the underlying economic model from an institutional, rather than library, perspective and more consideration of projected costs and benefits,especially when considered from a multi-institutional or consortial point of view. Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa, philipdavis,