Pay It Forward - Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions | Mellon Foundation

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Summary:

"A wholesale shift to a new business model for publishing, in which authors or their institutions pay at the point of publication, instead of institutions paying to subscribe, would have farreaching implications for the distribution of costs for scholarly publication, the reach of those publications, equity in the ability to publish research, incentives for innovation in online publishing technology, and much more. This project attempts to shed some light on one important aspect of the shift: whether it would be financially sustainable for the large, research-intensive institutions in North America that currently publish the largest share of the world’s research. The answer is complex but points a way toward a possible funding model that could introduce the right incentives to both manage costs and improve the system over time, while achieving the benefit of fully open access to research."

Link:

http://icis.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/UC-Pay-It-Forward-Final-Report.rev_.7.18.16.pdf

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oa.new oa.universities oa.publishing oa.case.journals oa.gold oa.growth oa.business_models oa.fees oa.sustainability oa.surveys oa.budgets oa.libraries oa.north_america oa.funding oa.disciplines oa.ssh oa.redirection oa.stem oa.hei oa.journals oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

07/27/2016, 15:40

Date published:

07/27/2016, 11:40