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| Discussion on the costs of electronic publishing, assessing the value of benefits specific to electronic media as opposed to print. | |
| The purpose of this brief case report is to summarise how JSTOR's economic model was developed, what was learnt in the process of development, and what the future challenges might be. | ||
| An examination of publication cost considerations for electronic journals. | ||
| An article in the journal American Scientist advocating free Internet access to traditional journals thus enabling scientists to share published research without high cost. | ||
| An article which discusses the question of whether electronic publications can be operated at much lower costs than print journals, and still provide all the services that scholars require. Concludes that the transition is likely to be complicated, since the scholarly publishing business is full of inertia and perverse economic incentives. | ||
| Conference paper (January 1999) which examines various pricing formulae and charging mechanisms being used by publishers and producers of electronic material, particularly electronic journals, as well as models of pricing being proposed for the future. It also considers the options and implications for the funding of electronic resources within and between organisations. | ||
| Report on current problems in academic publishing including the increased output of journal titles and articles, spiralling prices and tightening financial constraints on purchasers. The authors examine some of the economic implications of the recent strategies adopted by libraries to try and tackle these issues. | ||
| Canadian initiative dedicated to the development of an international alternative scholarly communication system outside of the commercial mainstream, promoting a model of high quality scholarly communication free from the heavy costs of printing, distribution, and administration associated with the publication of print and commercial journals. Includes a list of scholarly journals - all freeware or low cost shareware titles - affiliated with ICAAP. | ||
| Papers from this conference covering topics such as the economics of electronic scholarly publishing, incorporating technology into academia, the future of consortia and access versus ownership, electronic content licensing, and updates on several electronic scholarly initiatives such as the Columbia University Online Books Project, Project Muse at Johns Hopkins University, and JSTOR. | ||
| Paper comparing the costs of traditional publishing methods with electronic opportunities. | ||
| Conference paper (April 1998) which summarises the costs of publishing scientific scholarly journals. Activities are described for five publishing components: article processing (eg editing, composition), non article processing (eg covers, tables of contents, letters, book reviews), reproduction (eg printing, collating, binding), distribution (eg wrapping, labelling, sorting, mailing, subscription maintenance), and support (eg marketing, administration, finance). A cost model is derived for each of these components, and total costs of a 'typical' journal are presented, as well as costs of electronic publications. | ||
| This Canadian report provides a cost benefit analysis of publishing academic electronic journals relative to that of publishing traditional paper-based journals in the social sciences and humanities. | ||
| Paper originally presented at an Association of Research Libraries workshop in September 1997, discussing the potential, promotion, impact and cost of electronic journals in relation to the traditional monograph. | ||
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