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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

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.

* Gobbledygook Martin Fenner's blog on scientific publishing in the internet age. o How do you read papers? Date: Sunday, 02 Nov ember 2008 Working in science is as much about reading papers as it is about writing papers. There are usually two ways you can come across an interesting scientific paper: + Active Searching. Literature search on a particular topic + Passive Browsing. Scanning the literature in regular intervals for papers of interest The focused active search is typically used when you collect information for a research project or write a paper or grant proposal. This is stuff for another blog post and can be better explained by a science librarian like Oliver Obst or Frank Norman. Now I want to talk about different ways to keep track of the current literature in your field. I would assume that most if not all people involved in science do this in one way or another, and I also think that many people are struggling with the best strategy (see Richard’s related post on this topic: Too many fish in the sea).

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How to Publish Linked Data on the Web Authors: Chris Bizer (Web-based Systems Group, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Richard Cyganiak (Web-based Systems Group, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Tom Heath (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) This version: http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/20070727/ Latest version: http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/ Abstract This document provides a tutorial on how to publish Linked Data on the Web. After a general overview of the concept of Linked Data, we describe several practical recipes for publishing information as Linked Data on the Web.

The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification defines a standard for interoperable content description, interchange, and reuse in both traditional and electronic publishing contexts. PRISM recommends the use of certain existing standards, such as XML, RDF, the Dublin Core, and various ISO specifications for locations, languages, and date/time formats. Beyond those recommendations, it defines a small number of XML namespaces and controlled vocabularies of values, in order to meet the goals listed above.

Lemon8-XML is a web-based service designed to make it easier for non-technical editors and authors to convert scholarly papers from typical word-processor editing formats such as MS-Word .DOC and OpenOffice .ODT, into publishing layout formats such as the open, industry-standard NLM Journal Publishing XML format.

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