Rebuilding the high walls of solid scholarship - Mail & Guardian Online
peter.suber's bookmarks 2012-08-05
Summary:
"A key issue in the rapidly evolving e-books era is open access, which allows all who wish to read a publication to read it free online. The world of journals is undergoing a dramatic shift in its long-term paradigm — from pay-to-read subscriptions to a pay-to-publish business model that requires authors, institutions or funders to pay so that all others can read for free, or to hybrid models in which both ways of meeting the costs of publication are used by one journal. The experience of the HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council)Press in South Africa has shown that online availability of its scholarly books can enhance the marketing and sales of print copies...."