Academic Publishing and Open Access With the…
Academic Publishing and Open Access : « With the spread of the internet and new opportunities for publishing academic works digitally at virtually no costs, the...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Assemblée générale extraordinaire des revues diffusées sur Cairn.info : Les revues SHS et l’Open Access
Ouverture de la journée – Contexte et objectifs Marc Minon, Ouverture de la journée from Cairn.info on Vimeo. L’Open Access : les origines du mouvement, ses mot...
Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce
« Discussions of the economics of scholarly communication are usually devoted to Open Access, rising journal prices, publisher profits, and boycotts. That ignor...
What Do Journals Do? – Voluntary Public Goods and the Doomsday of Commercial Science Publishing
Commercial (and non-commercial) science publishing has evolved as a solution to a number of problems in the market for research results. It has reduced transact...
Managing your assets in the publication economy
« The issue this article aims to address is the fact that publications may nowadays be used to assess impact and quality of research in ways academics may not b...
Open Access Versus Traditional Journal Pricing: Using a Simple ‘Platform Market’ Model to Understand Which Will Win (and Which Should)
Economists have built a theory to understand markets in which, rather than selling directly to buyers, suppliers sell through a platform, which controls prices ...
Pay Big to Publish Fast: Academic Journal Rackets
In the context of open-access (OA) academic publishing, the mounting pressure cross global academe to publish or perish has spawned an exponentially growing num...