The oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive database
Authors : Simon van Bellen, Juan Pablo Alperin, Vincent Larivière Global scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several dec...
Étiquette : scholarly publishing market
Game theory and scholarly publishing: premises for an agreement around open access
Author : Abdelghani Maddi Stakeholders in research and scientific publishing are gradually joining the Open-Access (OA) movement, which is gaining momentum to b...
The Impact of the German ‘DEAL’ on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market
Authors : Justus Haucap, Nima Moshgbar, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one sid...
Business as Usual with Article Processing Charges in the Transition towards OA Publishing: A Case Study Based on Elsevier
Author : Sergio Copiello This paper addresses the topic of the article processing charges (APCs) that are paid when publishing articles using the open access (O...
The Pricing of Open Access Journals: Diverse Niches and Sources of Value in Academic Publishing
Authors : Kyle Siler, Koen Frenken Open Access (OA) publishing has created new academic and economic niches in contemporary science. OA journals offer numerous ...
Determinants of Article Processing Charges for Medical Open Access Journals
Author : Sumiko Asai For-profit subscription journal publishers recently have extended their publishing range from subscription journals to numerous open access...
Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing
Authors : Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti Academic publishing is changing. The drive towards open access publishing, which is being powered in the UK by funding bodie...