Hans E Roosendaal and three co-authors, Scientific Publishing: From Vanity to Strategy

A new book from Woodhead Publishing, October 2009. From the blurb: "[T]he topic of business models in scientific publishing is currently relevant by the emergence of open access and other potential schemes that are possible in a digital information environment....The book deals with the issue of business models in scientific publishing and how these relate to the research process, i.e. support or inhibit this process. The researcher is taken as the starting point for the considerations to arrive at a comprehensive description of the publishing process as an integral part of the research process. The properties of different business models are tested against this description, allowing an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of these models in supporting the research process."