Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Self-archiving and Repositories

Accessibility and Self Archiving of Conference Articles: A Study on a Selection of Swedish Institutional Repositories

The main purpose of this project has been to examine the accessibility of refereed conference articles and the OAand publishing policies of conferences in order to in this way elucidate different aspects concerning self-archiving in Swedish institutional repositories. For this purpose, the project participants have examined a number of conferences and references to conference articles via their...

A Comparison of Subject and Institutional Repositories in Self-archiving Practices

In regard to the mechanism of content recruitment, institutional repositories (IR) at their initial stage of development in the early 2000s followed what subject-based repositories (SR) had already practiced for many years. Since then, self-archiving has become the primary way of aggregating digital collections for IRs, although recent operations and content materials of IRs have been more dive...

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...