The Economics of Open Access: On the Future of Academic Publishing. By Thomas Eger and Marc Scheufen. [Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018. x + 156 pp. Hardback £65. ISBN 978 1 78536 575 1.]

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 678-681
Author(s):  
River Chen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Publishing Limited ◽  
Edward Elgar

scholarly journals Wiley on Open Science and Plan S

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Wood ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Publishing ◽  
A Company

In this episode, we talk to one of the big ones - the global publishing company Wiley. Wiley is a company with over 5000 employees that specializes in academic publishing. Our guest is Alice Wood, senior publishing development editor at Wiley. We want to know what their take on Open Science and Plan S is? What happens when you "flip" a journal? And how they see Open Science and Open Access as part of their company in the future. Wood also elaborates on what they are currently doing when it comes to making their own journals OA, what journals they choose to flip and if they do any changes to those journals after flipping. The host of this episode is Erik Lieungh. This episode was first published 10 January 2019.

scholarly journals Editorial: The Rectification of Names

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Heng Hartse ◽  
Sibo Chen ◽  
Marie-Josée Goulet
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Writing Centers ◽  
Model Fitting ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rectification Of Names

Welcome to the new issue of the Canadian Journal of Studies in Discourse and Writing/ Rédactologie. This issue marks several beginnings for the journal: there is a new editorial team; the journal’s archives will soon be fully available online; and the journal has moved to an “issue-in-progress” model fitting the open access, online trend of academic publishing. Due to these shifts, we thought it appropriate to introduce this new issue of the journal, which includes a special section on the future of writing centers in Canada guest-edited by Roger Graves, with a version of Confucius’ “rectification of names”. What do we mean by each of the words or phrases in the journal’s title? How do they express the character of this publication and what we hope it will do in the future?

scholarly journals Open access: the future of academic publishing?

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 471-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals The Diamond Model of Open Access Publishing: Why Policy Makers, Scholars, Universities, Libraries, Labour Unions and the Publishing World Need to Take Non-Commercial, Non-Profit Open Access Serious

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 428-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs ◽  
Marisol Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Future

This reflection introduces a new term to the debate on open access publishing: diamond open access (DOA) publishing. The debate on open access is a debate about the future of academia. We discuss the problems of for-profit academic publishing, such as monopoly prices and access inequalities and point at the limits of contemporary perspectives on open access as they are frequently advanced by the publishing industry, policy makers and labour unions. The article introduces a public service and commons perspective that stresses the importance of fostering and publicly supporting what we term the model of diamond open access. It is a non-profit academic publishing model that makes academic knowledge a common good, reclaims the common character of the academic system and entails the possibility for fostering job security by creating public service publishing jobs. Existing concepts such as “gold open access” have serious conceptual limits that can be overcome by introducing the new term of diamond open access. The debate on open access lacks visions and requires social innovations. This article is a policy intervention and reflection on current issues related to open access (OA) publishing. It reflects on the following questions: * What should the role of open access be in the future of academic publishing and academia? * How should the future of academic publishing and academia look like? * Which reforms of academic policy making are needed in relation to open access publishing? We want to trigger a new level of the open access debate. We invite further reflections on these questions by academics, policy makers, publishers, publishing workers, labour unions, open access publishing associations, editors and librarians.Twitter: #DiamondOA

The fate of academic publishing and academia in a semantic environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom P. Abeles
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to present a viewpoint on the future of academic publishing. It is important for a traditional peer-reviewed academic journal that is focused on the future, particularly of post-secondary education, to be sensitive to the waters in which it swims and to sense how the climate is changing within the journal area and education as a whole. Design/methodology/approach – This is a viewpoint on the future of academic publishing. Findings – The rapid development of the Internet and the semantic Web is showing that: The traditional double-blind peer review process is changing to a variety of processes from both pre- and post-review to open reviews; open access is firmly established and growing; there is a shift in promotion/tenure towards more emphasis on teaching; the semantic Web is introducing changes in the impact value of journals in research and education, including the function of the institutions themselves. Social implications – Islands of concentrated knowledge locked in Ivory Towers are now readily accessible, broadly changing how individuals gain and improve competencies and use of increasing, evolving knowledge bases. Originality/value – This article discusses the following: There is a growing alternative to the hegemony of the traditional publishers of journals even with the moderate response to open access. Basic knowledge as offered in institutions is becoming a commodity, the cost of which is asymptotically approaching zero; “Big Data” and the semantic engines on the Internet are amplifying the human capabilities of accessing, parsing and rapidly evaluating an increasing knowledge base, impacting research and education.

scholarly journals The Diamond Model of Open Access Publishing: Why Policy Makers, Scholars, Universities, Libraries, Labour Unions and the Publishing World Need to Take Non-Commercial, Non-Profit Open Access Serious

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 428-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs ◽  
Marisol Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Future

This reflection introduces a new term to the debate on open access publishing: diamond open access (DOA) publishing. The debate on open access is a debate about the future of academia. We discuss the problems of for-profit academic publishing, such as monopoly prices and access inequalities and point at the limits of contemporary perspectives on open access as they are frequently advanced by the publishing industry, policy makers and labour unions. The article introduces a public service and commons perspective that stresses the importance of fostering and publicly supporting what we term the model of diamond open access. It is a non-profit academic publishing model that makes academic knowledge a common good, reclaims the common character of the academic system and entails the possibility for fostering job security by creating public service publishing jobs. Existing concepts such as “gold open access” have serious conceptual limits that can be overcome by introducing the new term of diamond open access. The debate on open access lacks visions and requires social innovations. This article is a policy intervention and reflection on current issues related to open access (OA) publishing. It reflects on the following questions: * What should the role of open access be in the future of academic publishing and academia? * How should the future of academic publishing and academia look like? * Which reforms of academic policy making are needed in relation to open access publishing? We want to trigger a new level of the open access debate. We invite further reflections on these questions by academics, policy makers, publishers, publishing workers, labour unions, open access publishing associations, editors and librarians.Twitter: #DiamondOA

scholarly journals Obligation to Open Access: Academic Publishing of the Future?

sui generis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne Sarah Graf ◽  
Dario Henri Haux
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Swiss National Science Foundation ◽  
University Employees ◽  
National Science ◽  
The Future

Open Access is the principle of free access to scientific literature. Both the Swiss National Science Foundation and Swissuniversities are increasingly promoting Open Access. With this, the question arises, as to whether university employees may be obliged to publish Open Access. The authors describe in a first step, how this issue has been addressed in other countries, and then consider a possible implementation in Switzerland.

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