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  • Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now

    Among the many important implications of Houghton et al.?s (2009) timely and illuminating JISC analysis of the costs and benefits of providing free online access to peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journal articles, one stands out as particularly compelling: It would yield a 40-fold benefit/cost ratio if the world?s peer-reviewed research were all self-archived by its authors so as to... more

  • Openness in Academic Publication: The Question of Trust, Authority and Reliability

    John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim have rebuffed many of the claims made around the prevalent economic model(s) of academic publishing. They support the contention that there is much to be gained from a shift to open access dissemination of scholarly research. While the economic case seems clear, unfortunately this is not the whole picture; there are other costs and benefits related to the... more

  • Minerva's Owl. A Reponse to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models'

    Houghton and Oppenheim?s cost?benefit analysis of different forms of scholarly publishing is a major contribution in considering the case for open access and for open institutional repositories as a standard resource in publicly-funded universities.In what follows, I will draw out some specific aspects of Houghton and Oppenheim?s cost?benefit analysis in order to explore these wider issues. more

  • Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Views from a Non-Economist

    The Houghton and Oppenheim paper and the JISC report focus on three publishing models: subscription publishing; open access (OA) publishing (often called ?Gold OA?); and open access self-archiving. The author responds respond both as an academic who conducts research, writes about it and tries to get it published, and as a researcher interested in scholarly communication, publishing and open... more

  • A Commentary on 'The Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models'

    In ?The economic implications of alternative publishing models?, Houghton and Oppenheim summarise a much longer and more detailed report (Houghton et al., 2009) published by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in January 2009. This original report piled assumption on assumption, estimate on estimate, to arrive at a series of conclusions about the potential economic benefits of open... more

  • Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

    In this report the Committee for Economic Development examines higher education through the lens of openness. Their goal was to understand the potential impact of greater openness on colleges and universities. Like other service industries such as finance or entertainment, higher education is rooted in information?its creation, analysis, and transmission and the development of the skills... more

  • Open Access Policy Background - Brigham Young University. IPT 692R :: Summer 2009

    Although this document begins with the religious ideology of Brigham Young University, it provides a useful analysis of the status of open access at universities in the United States of America. more

  • Action Research for Professional Development: Concise advice for New Action Researchers

    This text aims to provide some general answers for the many people who ask, ?What exactly is action research?? A number of excellent books are available to give more detailed responses, and you can find some of them in the ?bibliographies? section of this web site. Here I am hoping to give a brief gloss about what action research is, and how helpful it can be in our hopes to improve the... more

  • Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution. A SPARC/Science Commons White Paper

    Inspired by the example set by the Harvard faculty, this White Paper is addressed to the faculty and administrators of academic institutions who support equitable access to scholarly research and knowledge, and who believe that the institution can play an important role as steward of the scholarly literature produced by its faculty. This paper discusses both the motivation and the process... more

  • (Re-) De-Commodification in Academic Knowledge Distribution

    This paper argues that the system of formal scholarly publication is entering its third phase of evolution. This phase has not yet taken full shape, but is characterised by a strong de-commodified core with only niches for commercial publishers - in contrast to phase 11 which was the age of increasing commodification. The main reasons for this development are economic, functional and... more

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