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The Economics of Open Access Publishing Open Access Publishing is the free distribution of research, whether it is as a pre-print (working paper) or a peer-reviewed article. Since the creation of the web, more and more journal are choosing open access as their business model. One of them was recently Economic Analysis and Policy, published by the Economic Society of Australia (Queensland). To celebrate this, EAP has just published a special issue dedicated to the Economics of Open Access Publishing. Articles are written by economists discussing their experience with open access as well as by others involved in open access publishing. They cover the transition the publishing industry is currently undergoing, the surprisingly low cost of publishing an open access journal, the impact of open access and various open source aspects of the open access. * Introduction, by Christian Zimmermann * The Stratified Economics of Open Access, by John Willinsky * But what have you done for me lately? Commercial Publishing, Scholarly Communication, and Open-Access, by John P. Conley and Myrna Wooders * Publishing an E-Journal on a Shoe String: Is It a Sustainable Project?, by Piero Cavaleri. Michael Keren, Giovanni B. Ramello and Vittorio Valli * Open Access Models and their Implications for the Players on the Scientific Publishing Market, by Steffen Bernius, Matthias Hanauske, Wolfgang König and Berndt Dugall * Open Access Economics Journals and the Market for Reproducible Economic Research, by B.D. McCullough * Estimating the Potential Impacts of Open Access to Research Findings, by John Houghton and Peter Sheehan * The Economics of Open Bibliographic Data Provision, by Thomas Krichel and Christian Zimmermann Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) * UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) * Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Embracing Openness * Obstacles to social scholarship * Open That Bottle Night This entry was posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 1:43 am and is filed under Dissemination of research in Economics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. You must be logged in to post a comment. * * About this blog Welcome to the RePEc blog. We, the RePEc team, discuss here the workings of RePEc and seek input from the community on how we can improve. We also want to give more volunteers opportunity to be part of this project and provide valuable services to the profession. Finally, we also discuss issues about the

Publishing humanities monographs in Open Access OAPEN is a project in Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs. The consortium of University-based academic publishers who make up OAPEN believe that the time is ripe to bring the successes of scientific Open Access publishing to the humanities and social sciences. The OAPEN partners are all active in the Open Access movement already, with details available on their pages on this site and on their own websites. The project will find useful, exciting and beneficial ways of publishing scholarly work in Open Access, enhancing access to important peer reviewed research from across Europe. Most importantly it will find a financial model which is appropriate to scholarly humanities monographs, a publishing platform which is beneficial to all users and create a network of publishing partners across Europe and the rest of the world. The partners: Amsterdam University Press Georg-August Universität Göttingen Museum Tusculanum Press Manchester University Press Presses Universitaires de Lyon Firenze University Press University of Amsterdam Leiden University

The Rutgers Optimality Archive is a distribution point for research in Optimality Theory. Posting in ROA is open to all who wish to disseminate their work in, on, or about OT.

A consortium facilitates Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics by re-directing subscription money. This answers the request of the High Energy Physics community. Today: (funding bodies through) libraries buy journal subscriptions to support the peer-review service and allow their patrons to read articles. Tomorrow: funding bodies and libraries contribute to the consortium, which pays centrally for the peer-review service. Articles are free to read for everyone.

Examples of Affordable, Free and Open Textbooks This page contains a vetted list of affordable, online educational resources that might be used in place of an expensive, commercial textbook. The focus of this list is usability; each resource was recommended by at least one professor who has assigned it.

Open Access and Global Participation in Science James A. Evans1* and Jacob Reimer2 Previous investigations into the impact of open-access journals on subsequent citations confounded open and electronic access and failed to track availability over time. With new data, we separated these effects. We demonstrate that a journal receives a modest increase in citations when it comes online freely, but the jump is larger when it first comes online through commercial sources. This effect reverses for poor countries where free-access articles are much more likely to be cited. Together, findings suggest that free Internet access widens the circle of those who read and make use of scientists' investigations.

CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright-protected content to waive copyright interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright. In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and the exclusive rights it automatically grants to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.

"Under the terms of the agreement, articles by UC-affiliated authors accepted for publication in a Springer journal beginning in 2009 will be published using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate open access. There will be no separate per-article charges, since costs have been factored into the overall license

News releases OCLC Board of Trustees and Members Council to convene Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 13 January 2009—OCLC Members Council and the OCLC Board of Trustees will jointly convene a Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship to represent the membership and inform OCLC on the principles and best practices for sharing library data. The group will discuss the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records with the OCLC membership and library community.

This project, funded for two years starting September 2008 by the NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program will develop a suite of tools and services to encourage formation of virtual organizations in scientific communities of various sizes, such as conference groups and departmental research groups, and allow such organizations to filter out relevant documents from various input streams, select and enhance the quality of bibliographic data associated with the organization, and attract students, teachers and researchers to contribute to activity of the organization.

The next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6), will be held at the University of Geneva on the 17th-19th of June 2009 (view map, slide show of the building). Agenda

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

BRII – Berkeley Research Impact Initiative co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian BRII home New Program Announcement (PDF) Program Description Frequently Asked Questions Instructions for Application and Reimbursement UCB Scholarly Communication website Contact Us Frequently Asked Questions What is BRII? The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) supports faculty members who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication. An 18-month pilot program, BRII will subsidize, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus.