Freemium as a sustainable economic model for open access electronic publishing in humanities and social sciences

Information Services and Use

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 225-233

  Mounier, Pierre ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

economic models; freemium; humanities; Open access; social sciences

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC MODELS; FREEMIUM; FUNDING SOURCES; HUMANITIES; OPEN ACCESS; OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84867214223     PISSN: 01675265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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