Colleges, Libraries and Presses Team Up to Publish Open Scholarship (And Rethink Model) | EdSurge News

tagteam101's bookmarks 2017-04-19

Summary:

Nobody ever published scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences to get rich. But these days the question is how publishers can afford to produce them at all, especially as the main customers for those books—academic libraries—face ever-shrinking budgets, and the open-access movement has pumped up expectations that scholarship should be shared as widely and cheaply as possible.

Link:

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-04-11-colleges-libraries-and-presses-team-up-to-publish-open-scholarship-and-rethink-model?utm_content=buffer1b69b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Graham Steel's bookmarks

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oa.books oa.humanities oa.ssh

Date tagged:

04/19/2017, 05:50

Date published:

04/19/2017, 01:50