Open access is a topic very much on the minds of Scientific, Technical & Medical publishers. This HotTopics focuses on open access’s merits as a sustainable business model and an alternative to subscriptions.
This HotTopics provides you with:
A sampling of publishers’ attitudes toward and experiences with open access, from organizations such as Elsevier and Oxford University Press
Examples of recent successes and real-world business challenges with open access
A chart with descriptions of 18 publishers’ sponsored open access programs
Conditions enabling sponsored open access to work as a revenue model
Outsell’s essential actions for the scholarly publishing community
In preparing for this HotTopics, Outsell reviewed secondary literature on open access and conducted interviews with 10 publishers that are very experienced with open access programs or have a unique perspective on them; these comprised traditional publishers with open access programs as well as newer open access publishers.
Here's the Table of Contents:
Why This Topic?
Methodology
Defining Open Access
Open Access Finally Heats Up in 2006
Traditional Publishers Agnostic on Author-Sponsored Open Access
OUP Shares Extensive Data on the Oxford Open Program
HighWire Press Reflects Collective Early Experience
Publisher Advice Reflects Variations in Experience
Open Access Publishers Report Recent Success
Archiving and Repositories Loom over the Open Access Landscape
What to Make of All This?
Outsell’s List of Essential Actions
Companies Mentioned in This HotTopics
Appendix: Sponsored Open Access At-a-Glance
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/24/2006 02:19:00 PM.
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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
