EINIRAS 2004 Open Access – The New Internet Enabled Business Model for Scientific Publishing Professor Bo-Christer Björk Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration
EINIRAS 2004 The evolution of scientific publishing
EINIRAS 2004 Two interconnected paradigm shifts From printed to electronic delivery From subscription to a variety of business models
EINIRAS 2004 The price/citation diagrams Bergstrom C. Et al 2001
EINIRAS 2004 What is Open Access Making scientific content available for free on the WWW Free means free of charge and access restrictions for the readers But not necessarily that there isn’t a price tag involved (new revenue models) Either as primary or secondary outlet
EINIRAS 2004 Business models for scientific journal publishing
EINIRAS 2004 Open Access Journals
EINIRAS 2004 Subject based e-print servers
EINIRAS 2004 Institutional repositories
EINIRAS 2004 Self-publishing
EINIRAS 2004 How important is OA today? Open Access Journals around 1 % E-print servers important in some areas Institutional repositories just starting Self-publishing the most common method
EINIRAS 2004 New refereed scientific journals founded in the years categorised according to type
EINIRAS 2004 Number of OA journals as a percentage of all newly founded scientific journals
EINIRAS 2004 Biomed Central
EINIRAS 2004 What are the main barriers? JournalsSubject repositories Institutional repositories Legal framework-*** IT-infrastructure** Business models****** Institutional behaviour ****** Standards****** Awareness, critical mass ********
EINIRAS 2004 Means to overcome the barriers Legal framework New types of copyright agreements allowing parallel OA publishing IT-infrastructure Open source applications such as D- space Business models Author or institutional author charge financed journals Institutional Behaviour More emphasis on availability and readership of publications in Academia Standards Widespread use of the Open Archives Initiative standard Awareness Services such as the DOAJ
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Useful links Finnish Open Access working group OACS research project Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific Communication Directory of Open Access Journals EPrints.org - Self-Archiving and Open Archives Budapest Open Access Initiative Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
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