Has the Revolution in Scholarly Communication Lived Up to Its Promise?

dc.contributor.authorHahn, Trudi Bellardo
dc.contributor.authorBurright, Marian
dc.contributor.authorDuggan, Heidi Nickisch
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-14T18:58:15Z
dc.date.available2011-10-14T18:58:15Z
dc.date.issued2011-06
dc.description.abstractIn the late 1990s the need for an overhaul in the approach to scholarly publishing was recognized. A drastic change would revise the economic model on which publishing was based, give authors rights to their own works in open access repositories and enable consumers across the world to access scholarly materials, building a flow of valuable information for the common good. The revolution has yet to materialize, though small but welcome achievements have been made. The open access business model has gained a foothold with the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and scientists receiving grants through the National Institutes of Health must submit manuscripts to the PubMed Central digital archive. Several universities mandate that faculty members deposit their scholarly articles in institutional repositories, and the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity promotes open publishing by supporting authors. Librarians are both part of the problem and part of the solution. Instead of worrying about paying rising subscription fees, they could use their position to influence authors to take advantage of open access channels despite publish-or-perish pressures. Recent legislative and presidential initiatives, geared to disseminating publicly funded research, may be effective in moving open access closer to transforming the traditional system of scholarly communication.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHahn, T. B., Burright, M, & Nickisch Duggan, H. (2011). Has the revolution in scholarly communication lived up to its promise? Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 37(5), 24-28.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12128
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Society for Information Science and Technologyen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Information Studiesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtInformation Studiesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectScholarly publishingen_US
dc.subjectOpen access publicationsen_US
dc.subjectEconomics of informationen_US
dc.subjectDigital repositoriesen_US
dc.subjectBusiness modelsen_US
dc.subjectPublishersen_US
dc.titleHas the Revolution in Scholarly Communication Lived Up to Its Promise?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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