The prestitgious, 70 year old Ivey Business Journal from Western Ontario's Ivey School of Business is converting from priced and printed to open access. This is a perfect example of enlightened conversion. The print journal had a healthy number of subscribers and advertisers. But the school decided that it was more important to reach a larger international audience than to take money from a smaller one. While it's mission is spread knowledge, not to make a profit, the conversion will save the journal $300,000 every year in production costs. (PS: Are the economics of open access publishing sustainable? Ask a business school.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/10/2002 09:48:00 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.
