A Journal is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing
A new economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing—journal publishing in particular—is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds o...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Open peer review : from an experiment to a model. A narrative of an open peer review experimentation
This article narrates the development of the experimentation of an open peer review and open commentary protocols. This experiment concerns propositions of arti...
Innovations in scholarly communication – global survey on research tool usage
Many new websites and online tools have come into existence to support scholarly communication in all phases of the research workflow. To what extent researcher...
Access to human, animal, and environmental journals is still limited for the One Health community
Objective “One Health” is an interdisciplinary approach to evaluating and managing the health and well-being of humans, animals, and the environments they share...
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...
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...