The Price of On-Screen Reading Interfaces Versus Print Interfaces: Open Access Publishing | History and Future of the Book

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-04-29

Summary:

"In conclusion, screen reading interfaces may contain an array of pros and cons, but the assumption that online information and publishing are always free is false. Internet access, electricity use and production, manufacturing of electronic devices, and the labor of writing and editing all come at a cost. Open access publishing is a solution created to solve this problem, which aimed to remove a portion of these costs from consumers and instead have the authors pay to become published. However, this model also contains many pros and cons, being very controversial in the publishing domain. Open access publishing may widen the audiences of articles, yet it can also lead to lower quality in articles and to legal issues. The future of open access publishing relies on authors themselves, because they make their own decision to publish their articles in open access, or to publish their article in an academic journal."

Link:

https://words.usask.ca/historyofthebook/2017/03/27/the-price-of-on-screen-reading/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
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Tags:

oa.hardware

Date tagged:

04/29/2017, 15:14

Date published:

04/29/2017, 11:16