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Open Access: What Comes Next

Goodman, David (2005) Open Access: What Comes Next. Learned Publishing 2005(1):pp. 13-23.

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Abstract

This article examines the effects that present decisions about open access (OA) will have over the next ten years. It will be shown that the consequences are affected both by deliberate choices of policy by librarians and publishers, as well as by the adoption of various alternatives by scientific authors. The eventual result could be excellent, or quite otherwise.

EPrint Type:Journal Article (Paginated)
Keywords:Open Access
Subjects:Scholarly Communication
Economics of Information
Academic Libraries
Electronic Publishing
ID Code:684
Deposited On:27 November 2005
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References:

(1) The best single source is the archives of liblicense-l, www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives

(2) Goodman, D. The Criteria for Open Access. Serials Review, volume 30(4):258-280. (2004),

Special Issue: Open Access 2004.

(3) For details see the SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos

(4) http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

(5) See PLoS as described in http://www.plos.org, as compared to Scielo, www.scielo.br/scielo.php/

(6) They were first advocated as a government requirement by Harold Varmus, as described in Kling, R. et. al. 'The Real Stakes of Virtual Publishing: The Transformation of e-Biomed into PubMed Central,' Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55, no.2 (2004):127-148

(7) Harnad, Stevan and Brody, Tim. 'Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals' D-Lib Magazine 10, no.6 (June 2004), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html

(8) Baldwin, Christine. 'What Do Societies Do with Their Publishing Surpluses?' http://www.alpsp.org.uk/news/NFPsurvey-summaryofresults.pdf

(9) Quinn, Barbara. 'Future of the NIH Open Access Policy' Information Today 21(9) Oct. 2004 http://www.infotoday.com./it/oct04/quint.shtml

(10) Discussed in the Soros Foundation guides at http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/

(11) See many of the opinions in the articles in the Nature Web Focus 'Access to the literature: the debate continues...' http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/

(12) That this decrease in prices is possible is shown by the 1 to 3 percent price decrease announced by the American Physical Society, and their anticipation that such decrease will continue, as stated in https://librarians.aps.org/2005pricing.htm

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