Open Access : Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects

ISBN-13: 9781843342038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 264 str.

Neil Jacobs

Opis

This book brings together many of the worlds leading open access experts to provide an analysis of the key strategic, technical and economic aspects on the topic of open access. Open access to research papers is perhaps a defining debate for publishers, librarians, university managers and many researchers within the international academic community. Starting with a description of the current situation and its shortcomings, this book then defines the varieties of open access and addresses some of the many misunderstandings to which the term sometimes gives rise. There are chapters on the technologies involved, researchers, perspectives, and the business models of key players. These issues are then illustrated in a series of case studies from around the world, including the USA, UK, Netherlands, Australia and India. Open access is a far-reaching shift in scholarly communication, and the book concludes by going beyond todays debate and looking at the kind of research world that would be possible with open access to research outputs.

• Chapters by leading experts in the field, including Professor Jean-Claude Guen, Clifford Lynch, Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber, Charles Bailey, Jr., Alma Swan, Fred Friend, John Shipp and Leo Waaijers
• Discussion of open access from a wide range of perspectives
• Country case studies, summarising open access in the USA, UK Netherlands, Australia and India

Recenzje

.an excellent collection. ...provides a readily accessible platform on which to build their knowledge and understanding of this evolving area., Online Information Review
.a valuable asset. It contains a wealth of information - including extensive lists of references and web links to related material., The Electronic Library
.this reference book successufully fills a significant gap in the literature. I would recommend it., Elucidate

Spis treści

Part 1 Open Access - History, Definitions and Rationale: Overview of scholarly communication; What is open access; Open access: a symptom and a promise; Economic costs of toll access; The impact loss to authors and research; The technology of open access. Part 2 Open Access and Researchers; The culture of open access: researchers; Views and responses; Opening access by overcoming Zenos paralysis; Researchers and institutional repositories. Part 3 Open access and other participants: Open access to the research literature: a funders perspective; Business models in open access publishing; Learned society business models and open access; Open all hours? Institutional models for open access. Part 4 The position around the world: DARE also means dare: institutional repository status in the Netherlands as of early 2006; Open access in the USA; Towards open access to UK research; Open access in Australia? Open access in India. Part 5 The future: Open competition: beyond human reader-centric views of scholarly literatures; The open research web.