On the Marginal Cost of Scholarly Communication
We assessed the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. We f...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Democratic Potential of New Models of Scholarship and the Crisis of Control
This paper frames the serials crisis as a loss of control over libraries’ collections and development budgets. While libraries have always had to contend with b...
Big Publishers, Bigger Profits: How the Scholarly Community Lost the Control of its Journals
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. Whi...
Availability of Open Access Books in DOAB: An Analytical Study
This paper discusses the availability of open access books which are available in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The relevant data has been collecte...
Anatomie et nouvelle organologie de l’édition ouverte
Cet article réinterroge le concept d’édition ouverte en proposant plusieurs pistes pour dépasser les habituels débats sur les modèles économiques. Nous voulons ...
Les pratiques de recherche documentaire, de publication et de diffusion scientifique des productions de la recherche à l’Université Paris-Sud : questionnaire à destination des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs et doctorants
Il s’agit de l’analyse détaillée des réponses à une enquête en ligne à destination des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs et doctorants de l’u...
Open Access, Open Science, Open Society
Open Access’ main goal is not the subversion of publishers’ role as driving actors in an oligopolistic market characterised by reduced competition and higher pr...