Two societies show how to profit by providing free access

Learned Publishing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 279-284

  Walker, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0036798209     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/095315102760319242     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Odlyzko, A. The economics of electronic journals. In R. Ekman and R.E. Quandt (eds), Technology and Scholarly Communication. University of California Press, 1999, pp. 380-93 (also available at http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/odlyzko.html).
2. That users of journal articles prefer to access e-versions at their computers rather than paper copies in libraries needs no referencing. For evidence that users will not complain about discontinuing paper issues if electronic access is available, see: Goodman, D. A year without print at Princeton and what we plan next. Learned Publishing 2002:15 (1) Jan., 43-50.
3. Institute of Scientific Information. 2000 JCR Science Edition. ISI Journal Citation Reports. [Web edition, licensed to University of Florida]. The three ranks that were averaged were for total citations to articles in the journal, impact factor, and immediacy index.
4. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI; http://www.openarchives.org/) develops and promotes standards that allow institutions to put content on the Internet in a manner that makes the individual repositories 'interoperable'. The recent Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/) gives impetus to OAI because one of the two strategies it recommends to promote free access to scholarly journal literature is for authors to deposit their articles in OAI-compliant archives.
5. For articles in ESA's four journals in 2001, the average length was 7.2 pages.
6. The nine publishers were American Physical Society, Elsevier, Entomological Society of America, Florida Entomological Society, Oxford University Press, Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis, Tri-Society and Wiley. Prices ranged from $95 to $492 with the average price being $257.
7. These means include posting author-produced PDF versions of the article (in violation of signed copyright agreements) and (legally) posting the manuscript at the time of original submission and subsequently posting a file describing the changes that were incorporated during the publisher's reviewing and editing procedures. The latter means has long been promoted by Stevan Harnad (e.g. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#Harnad/Oppenheim).