Ask The Chefs: Where Does Open Access Go From Here?

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-10-20

Summary:

"Open Access (OA) publishing is continuing to grow. Based on our most recent research and analysis, Delta Think estimates the OA market at approximately $470M in 2016, up from $390M in 2015. It is also no secret that OA volume as a percentage of total market volume (estimated at 20-22%) is much higher than OA revenue as a percentage of total market revenue (4-9%).

But what does this all mean? For publishers, those could be scary numbers, analogous to the revenue declines seen when print advertising decreased as online advertising increased, but at much lower revenue levels. For OA advocates, is this shift producing the accessibility and openness they had hoped for? For libraries, is OA reducing their cost while increasing access? Where do preprints fit in? What about the entire research process, versus article publishing only?"

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/10/20/ask-chefs-open-access/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.growth oa.speed oa.comment oa.budgets oa.libraries oa.costs oa.strategies oa.obstacles oa.business_models oa.gold oa.green oa.guerrilla oa.advocacy oa.fees oa.predictions oa.preprints oa.funders oa.repositories oa.versions oa.journals oa.revenues

Date tagged:

10/20/2017, 16:23

Date published:

10/20/2017, 12:23