Towards a Vision of Inexpensive Scholarly Journal Publication
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Ann Okerson
The dream of free and easy scientific and scholarly publishing on the Internet antedates the introduction of the World Wide Web. The last ten years have seen that dream dampened but not extinguished by the growth of the online for-profit journal, but multiple voices continue to speak for new models less tied to high prices and restricted access. This paper reviews the main models now in play, to identify their characteristic features, their strengths and their weaknesses. It reviews the criteria that will determine success and failure and concludes that management of costs and assurance of academic quality are the two critical factors. As a result of these factors, an altered, high-quality system of scholarly communications does not show promise of being truly inexpensive.
© 2003 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany
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Articles in the same Issue
- Information Behaviors in an Online Smoking Cessation Forum
- A Moral Reflection on the Information Flow From South to North: an African Perspective
- Provision of agricultural information for development: a case study on crossing communication boundaries
- Editorial
- Towards a Vision of Inexpensive Scholarly Journal Publication
- Internet Use Among Academic Librarians in the Universities of Zimbabwe and Zululand
- Information Literacy: A Plug-and-Play Approach
- Liberating Literacy: Uncovering the Ideology and Expanding the Practice
- Closed-Access Policy as a Solution to Library Crime: Perception and View of Students
