1. GL 6 Conference - 6-7 December 2004
Actual setting
Scientific publishing is a Prisoner’s Dillemma:
How to maximize one’s own payoff depends on the strategy adopted by one’s partner
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2. Problem 1: Market Monopoly
High concentration of publishers
8 publishers control 67% of market
Reed-Elsevier leads the market:
20-25% sharel
Very high margin of profit
up to 34%
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3. Problem 2: Intellectual Property
Authors provide their articles for free
Scientific information is centralized due to economic concentration
Access control limits use
Cancellation subscriptions and Licensing
Fair use at stake
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4. Influence of copyright law
European Directive on term of Copyright Protection
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1998)
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Case Felten et. al. vs. RIAA et. al.
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5. GL 6 Conference - 6-7 December 2004
Preferable changes
Copyright is no dogma
Duration of copyright should be limited
Revisions of copyright means not serving particular interests
Too many restrictions on access may harm democracy
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6. Subscriber-pays model in a crisis ?
United Kingdom
United States
Berlin Declaration
European Commission
OECD
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7. Electronic Open Access Paradigm
Copyleft and GNU
Open Source
is parallel
involves collaboration
independent peer review
feedback mechanism
participation
user involvement
rapid release schedules
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8. GL 6 Conference - 6-7 December 2004
Developments:
Creative Commons (2001)
Involvement of Grey Literature
electronic journals
institutional repositories
subject-specific repositories
self-posting
indexing with Open Archives protocol
Costs and Open Access
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