In transition to a sustainable Open Access? | Cristobal Cobo

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-10-10

Summary:

" ... Authors, such as Hopkins (2009), among others, suggest that Higher Education requires resilience, to face this changing landscape of knowledge dissemination. Resilience requires adaptation and evolution to new environmental conditions, but retains core identity, in other words ‘the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change, so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks’. In order to better understand how resilient are the post-secondary institutions regarding the transition that OA (open access) it is important to consider four key aspects: incentives, metrics, changing business models and sustainability ..."

Link:

http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/cobo/?p=802

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.universities oa.colleges oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.sustainability oa.metrics oa.impact oa.prestige oa.hei oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

10/10/2014, 10:30

Date published:

10/10/2014, 06:29