[Dartmouth] College agrees to open-access pact

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The intent of the compact is to develop financial support for authors who choose to publish in open-access journals but who do not want to pay publication fees, according to Shieber. Signatory universities agree to “underwriting reasonable publication charges” for open access journals, according to the compact’s website. Shieber said that there is a “market failure” in the subscription publishing system. Because copyright laws create a monopolistic system in which the journal is the only one with the rights to a particular scholarly work, purchasers have no options to choose from if they want to access it. He also said there is often an issue in the current system of “moral hazard,” as readers have no incentive to be concerned with the costs of access because libraries bear the cost of purchasing subscriptions...."

Link:

http://thedartmouth.com/2010/10/27/news/compact

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.journals oa.new oa.fees oa.funds oa.cope

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:42

Date published:

10/27/2010, 10:33