Flipping Scientific Journals to Open Access Can be the Shortest Route to Changing the Dynamics of Academic Publishing | Open Science

lkfitz's bookmarks 2018-03-05

Summary:

"Recent descriptions of the stalemate in the scholarly publishing market, where large publishers continue to maintain they sway over prestigious, in-demand journals and Open Access transition proves to be evolutionary and costly in the short term, overlook the shortcut path to reducing the nearly natural monopoly positions of incumbent publishers by switching existing, reputed journals to Open Access."

Link:

http://openscience.com/flipping-scientific-journals-to-open-access-can-be-the-shortest-route-to-changing-the-dynamics-of-academic-publishing/

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oa.new oa.gold oa.conversions oa.publishing oa.monopoly oa.publishers oa.profits oa.strategies oa.economics_of oa.europe oa.policies.funders oa.fees oa.business_models oa.costs oa.germany oa.boycotts oa.funders oa.journals

Date tagged:

03/05/2018, 09:52

Date published:

03/05/2018, 04:52