Gold Open Access Infrastructure

peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-05-01

Summary:

"Welcome to this site, which is intended, for a short time, to promote discussion on the subject of the technical infrastructure needed to support Gold Open Access to published research papers. There will be a series of posts added to this site over the next few weeks, and we hope that they will provoke you into responding with comments and discussion, so that this site becomes a focus for the wisdom of the scholarly communications community on this topic. Here is some background; the list of prospective blog post contributors is at the end of this text. The existing scholarly communications / journals technical infrastructure has grown up over several decades, and now includes publisher systems, journal platforms, the technical systems of serials agents, negotiating agents, libraries, repositories, preservation services and infrastructure services such as CrossRef and ISSN. The UK Finch report outlines principles for a transition in the UK to OA, with a prominent role for Gold OA. This is likely to recalibrate the relationships between some of those systems, with perhaps new functions evolving (for example, to support new roles within universities), along with evolution in models such as “Gold OA”. This is an area of considerable activity at present, for example: [1] standards work is being scoped and pursued through NISO, Jisc, Editeur, euroCRIS and others. There are discussions on metadata, workflow and interface definitions;
[2] candidate intermediary services from Open Access Key, EBSCO, Swets, Jisc Collections and others are being developed and offered, and CrossRef is developing relevant technical services and standards such as FundRef and CrossMark. There is a risk that, without some coordination, opportunities for agreement will be lost, leading to a fragmented domain with high transactions costs, inefficiencies for publishers and a poor level of choice for customers...."

Link:

http://www.goldoa.org.uk/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.surveys oa.metadata oa.uk oa.costs oa.infrastructure oa.rcuk oa.discussion oa.finch_report oa.coordination oa.journals

Date tagged:

05/01/2013, 10:16

Date published:

05/01/2013, 06:16