A Not-For-Profit Publisher’s Perspective on Open Access

Frank, Martin, Reich, Margaret and Ra'anan, Alice A Not-For-Profit Publisher’s Perspective on Open Access. Serials Review, 2004, vol. 30, n. 4. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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Recent legislative activity in the US House of Representatives and the UK House of Commons has added fuel to a debate over electronic access to the Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) literature that was initiated in 1999 with the introduction of E-Biomed. On-going efforts to change the landscape of STM publishing involve moving it away from a subscription basis to an author-pays model. This article chronicles the swift evolution of electronic access to the scientific literature and asks whether the scholarly community will really be better off with government-mandated open access (OA) publishing.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: Open Access, Open Publishing, AGORA,FAO_AGORA;Research4Life
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
E. Publishing and legal issues.
H. Information sources, supports, channels.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources.
Depositing user: Thembani Malapela
Date deposited: 22 Nov 2015 16:01
Last modified: 22 Nov 2015 16:01
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/28391

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