Free from Learned Publishing, Volume 15 Number 4 October 2002:
The peer-review process , by Fytton Rowland (p. 247-258; DOI: 10.1087/095315102760319206
Abstract: The recent literature about peer review of scholarly articles is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the cost of the peer-review process. Possible impacts of electronic scholarly publishing upon peer reviewing are discussed.
Two societies show how to profit by providing free access , by Thomas J. Walker (p. 279-284; DOI: 10.1087/095315102760319242)
Publisher: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Abstract: Authors and their sponsors are beginning to realize that immediate free Web access (IFWA) provides the most convenient access to journal articles, thereby maximizing their impact. Furthermore, IFWA is the most economical mode of access, and, no matter what the mode, authors and their sponsors pay nearly all the costs of access ... [The article concludes] Journal publishers should realize that if they initiate IFWA sales they are not only tapping a new source of revenues but they are also reducing the incentives that authors now have to use other means to provide IFWA to the final versions of their articles. ["Other means" include eprint archives! GA]
Posted by
Guy at 9/30/2002 01:21:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
