Economic implications of alternative publishing models: authors' response

Alternative Economic Models of Transition

The costs and potential benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models

Introduction. This paper reports on a study undertaken for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which explored the economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models. Rather than simply summarising the study’s findings, this paper focuses on the approach and presents a step-by-step account of the research process, highlighting the combination of process mapping, acti...

Costs and Benefits of Alternative Publishing Models: Denmark

Acknowledgements The author would like to acknowledge the support of the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the development of the modelling approach underpinning this study, and DEFF for enabling its application in Denmark. Thanks are due to the many people in Denmark who have contributed to this study through Bibliotek og Medier and DEFF. Thanks are also due to the research team...

AUTHORS’ RESPONSE On the Natural Selection of Alternative Models: Evaluation of Explanations in Evolutionary Psychology

A central goal of our target article was to evaluate the soundness of evolutionary psychology’s epistemology in relation to the critical claim that evolutionary explanations are unfalsifiable. None of the 16 commentators challenge our central assertion—that the methods and strategies employed by evolutionary psychologists to generate and test hypotheses are scientifically defensible—and thus we...

Scientific journals in Brazil and Spain: Alternative publishing models

This paper describes the situation of high-quality journals in Brazil and Spain, with emphasis on the distribution models used. It presents the general characteristics (age, type of publisher and theme) and analyses the distribution model by studying the type of format (print or digital), the type of access (open access or subscription) and the technology platform used. The 549 journals analyze...