Preliminary Examination of “Free Riding” in US Monograph Publication
lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-08-11
Summary:
"In order to study the viability of this institutional funding model in the context of real-world examples, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to Indiana University and the University of Michigan to “explore how a potential ‘subvention’ system of funding in which universities and colleges paid the costs of producing humanities monographs (rather than expecting publishers to recoup their costs from consumer payments) could work at two major research universities.”[5] The resulting monographs would be distributed via open access under a permanent nonexclusive license, thus greatly adding to their potential readership and ease of use. At the same time, the publishing press would be free to negotiate with the author to produce other versions of the work, including commercial versions."