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Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspectsEdited by Neil Jacobs, Consultant, UK
Chandos Information Professional Series
…an excellent collection. ...provides a readily accessible platform on which to build their knowledge and understanding of this evolving area.
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Elucidate
- chapters by leading experts in the field, including Professor Jean-Claude Gu餯n, Clifford Lynch, Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber, Charles Bailey, Jr., Alma Swan, Fred Friend, John Shipp and Leo Waaijers
- discussion of open access from a wide range of perspectives
- country case studies, summarising open access in the USA, UK Netherlands, Australia and India
- a unique combination of argument, evidence and vision
This book brings together many of the worlds leading open access experts to provide an analysis of the key strategic, technical and economic aspects on the topic of open access. Open access to research papers is perhaps a defining debate for publishers, librarians, university managers and many researchers within the international academic community. Starting with a description of the current situation and its shortcomings, this book then defines the varieties of open access and addresses some of the many misunderstandings to which the term sometimes gives rise. There are chapters on the technologies involved, researchers, perspectives, and the business models of key players. These issues are then illustrated in a series of case studies from around the world, including the USA, UK, Netherlands, Australia and India. Open access is a far-reaching shift in scholarly communication, and the book concludes by going beyond todays debate and looking at the kind of research world that would be possible with open access to research outputs.
Readership: Communication of academic research, including publishers, librarians, university managers, learned societies, research funders and, not least, academic researchers themselves. It will also be of interest to scholars and students within information science and publishing, and to social scientists interested in the social shaping of technology.
ISBN 1 84334 203 0
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 203 8
July 2006
264 pages 234 x 156mm paperback
£42.50 / US$70.00 / €50.00
Reprinting – not in stock at presentISBN 1 84334 204 9
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 204 5
July 2006
264 pages 234 x 156mm hardback
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About the editor
Dr Neil Jacobs, is an experienced information professional and researcher, currently managing the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Digital Repositories development programme in the UK.
The contributors are some of the leading experts in open access, and will be familiar to anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the debates in the field. They include academic researchers, librarians and publishers, and are all strategic thinkers with both breadth and depth of knowledge in scholarly communication. They have subtly different views on open access, and these come across in the book, which therefore documents the open access movement at a critical point in its progress.
Titles which may also be of interest:
Developing Open Access Journals
Academic and Professional Publishing
A Librarian’s Guide on How to Publish
The Ecology of Academic Journals
Contents
PART 1 OPEN ACCESS – HISTORY, DEFINITIONS AND RATIONALE
PART 2 OPEN ACCESS AND RESEARCHERS
PART 3 OPEN ACCESS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS
PART 4 THE POSITION AROUND THE WORLD
PART 5 THE FUTURE
PART 1 OPEN ACCESS – HISTORY, DEFINITIONS AND RATIONALEOverview of scholarly communication?
Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd., UK
What is open access?
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. University of Houston, USA
Open access: a symptom and a promise?
Jean-Claude Gu餯n University of Montreal, Canada
Economic costs of toll access
Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota, USA
The impact loss to authors and research
Michael Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA and Tim Brody, University of Southampton, UK
The technology of open access?
Chris Awre, University of Hull, UK
PART 2 OPEN ACCESS AND RESEARCHERSThe culture of open access: researchers? Views and responses?
Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd., UK
Opening access by overcoming Zeno?s paralysis?
Steven Harnad, Université of Québec, Canada, and University of Southampton, UK
Researchers and institutional repositories?
Arthur Sale, University of Tasmania, Australia
PART 3 OPEN ACCESS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTSOpen access to the research literature: a funders perspective?
Robert Terry, Wellcome Trust and Robert Kiley, Wellcome Library, UK
Business models in open access publishing?
Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central, UK
Learned society business models and open access
Mary Waltham, Publishing Consultant, USA
Open all hours? Institutional models for open access?
Colin Steele, Emeritus Fellow, ANU, Australia
PART 4 THE POSITION AROUND THE WORLDDARE also means dare: institutional repository status in the Netherlands as of early 2006
Leo Waaijers, DARE Programme, the Netherlands
Open access in the USA?
Peter Suber, Earlham College, USA
Towards open access to UK research?
Frederick J Friend, Scholarly Consultant, JISC, UK, and Honorary Director of Scholarly Communication, UCL, UK
Open access in Australia?
John Shipp, University of Sydney, Australia
Open access in India?
D K Sahu, Consultant Paediatrician and CEO Medknow Publications, India and Ramesh C Parmar, Consulting Paediatric Cardiologist, India
PART 5 THE FUTUREOpen competition: beyond human reader-centric views of scholarly literatures?
Clifford Lynch, Coalition of Networked Information, USA
The open research web?
Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Brody, Les Carr, University of Southampton, UK and Steven Harnad, Université of Quebec, Canada and University of Southampton, UK