Challenges to the role of publishers

Learned Publishing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-14

  Waltham, Mary ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0037248304     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/095315103320995032     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. See www.netsizer.com for current data on internet usage according to almost any parameter.
2. The Research Index site developed at NEC is at http://www.researchindex.com/.
3. The Open Archive Initiative is at http://www.openarchives.org.
4. Peak project articles are mostly at http://www.lib.umich.edu/retired/peak/.
5. Experience from OHIOLink is summarized in Tom Sanville's paper presented at IFLA in August 2001 at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla67/papers/118-141e.pdf.
6. Data on, among other measures, the number of pre-print articles submitted to the arXiv server are at http://arxiv.org/show_monthly_submissions.
7. Information about SPARC is at http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/index.asp?page = 0.
8. The Create Change home page is at http://www.createchange.org/home.html.
9. The Declaring Independence home page is at http://www.arl.org/sparc/DI.
10. Update on the Public Library of Science: http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002051601t.htm.
11. See 'To publish or perish' in Policy Perspectives, March 1998 (http://www.arl.org/scomm/pew/pewrept.html) and for the view promoted at the California Institute of Technology for a while see 'A provost challenges his faculty to keep copyright on journal articles', Chronicle of Higher Education 1998:18 Sep.
12. See 'To publish or perish' in Policy Perspectives, March 1998 (http://www.arl.org/scomm/pew/pewrept.html) and for the view promoted at the California Institute of Technology for a while see 'A provost challenges his faculty to keep copyright on journal articles', Chronicle of Higher Education 1998:18 Sep.
13. For the ALPSP model 'Licence to publish', which allows authors to retain copyright in their own name and also provides publishers with the necessary rights to publish and to grant licences to publish to other entities, see http://www.alpsp.org.uk/grantli.pdf.
14. See CrossRef at http://www.crossref.org.
15. Rhind-Tutt, S. What a tangled web we weave. Against the Grain 1998:Feb, 24-28.
16. Article from The Economist summarizing the state of online advertising: http://www.economist.co.uk/business/displayStory. cfm?Story_ID=513133.
17. An article by R.S. Gazzale and J.K. Mackie-Mason on the impact of 'non-pecuniary cost' on the willingness of users to buy individual articles is at http://www-personal.umich.edu/̃jmm/papers/gazzale.pdf.
18. Many of the initiatives to provide low or no-cost access to developing countries are listed at http://www.library.yale.edu/̃llicense/develop.shtml.
19. The American Physical Society archive policy is at http://librarians.aps.org/archivepolicy.html.
20. The intense level of activity to provide usage statistics can be seen by following links from http://www.projectcounter.org/other_initiatives.html which gives the seven other current active initiatives about measurement of online usage.
21. Varian, Hal. Versioning information goods. Publications or 'information goods' have high fixed costs and small variable costs, so Varian argues that cost-based pricing makes little sense and value-based pricing is much more appropriate. He discusses the main principles of versioning publications for different markets at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/̃hal/Papers/version.pdf.
22. Tedeschi, New York Times, 5 Aug 2002, section C, 5. Technology Review is enabling subscribers to download exact replicas of the magazine that they can read at their leisure and is targeting foreign readers first since digital delivery allows publishers to get copies to distant readers without making them wait weeks for postal delivery.