Designing a knowledge commons for academic publishing — Medium

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-07-13

Summary:

"Almost everyone thinks academic publishing needs to change. What would a better system look like? Economist Elinor Ostrom gave us design principles for an alternative — a knowledge commons, a sustainable approach to sharing research more freely. This approach exemplifies using economic principles to design a digital platform."

Link:

https://medium.com/@jimmytidey/designing-knowledge-commons-to-improve-academic-publishing-59d118c2b04c#.km8rfbiqm

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.piracy oa.sci-hub oa.elsevier oa.publishers oa.ssrn oa.preprints oa.sustainability oa.best_practices oa.misconduct oa.data oa.wikipedia oa.costs oa.universities oa.prices oa.profits oa.history_of oa.funders oa.uk oa.mandates oa.gold oa.green oa.fees oa.cc oa.business_models oa.repositories oa.hei oa.versions oa.policies oa.journals oa.economics_of oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

07/13/2016, 14:08

Date published:

07/13/2016, 10:08