The Impact of Electronic Publishing: The Future for Publishers and Librarians. David J. Brown and Richard Boulderstone. Munich: K. G. Saur, 2008. p[161]-184.
This article tackled Open Access as seen in the Market. Open access is said to be more of a business model as it is involved with selling publicly funded research materials to a wide array of readers. It stated that open access is slowly being accepted as it battles the traditional way of journal subscription. The subscription model offers limited access and only reaches a limited market. If commercially based controls are taken out of picture, then, open access promises to reach a wider audience providing more freedom in accessing information.
Open access however, still has a limited number of audiences. It is mostly the Academic and Research Institutions that uses open access as they have the funds to back them up provided to them by public or private organizations . Consider in the picture the so called "disenfranchised." They are the people outside the the two institutions mentioned. They are faced with constraints such as their actual buying power, how would they benefit from Open access then? Experts then have tried to justify transition from a subscription mode to Open Access to answer information needs.Things I've learned:
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Things I've learned:
Open Access promulgated from the idea of "openness" and that are 2 different types of openness--the green route and the gold route.
The gold route. Think gold -- think money. We can derive a there's no such thing as free lunch to fit as the definition of this type of OA. This is where an article when accessed by a user undergoes a per article processing fee. But there are also instances in which private funding organizations support the idea of free open access journal publishing, thus they fund the use of OA for free to those who wish to access information for free (for public use). There is also the new idea of Hybrid journals which includes "a mix of author Paid (OA) and toll-based articles access (TA -- or could also be referred to as the subscription mode)
The green route is the opposite of the gold route. Green supports are one in seeking for the ultimate free-access system for research information.
Backtracking from the previous reading assignment, I've mentioned TRUST as part of intellectual rights and copyright issues. This topic is also present in this article as this is essential for publishers of online journals. In the end, it all boils down to the credibility of an article to pass a good research material and for it to reach a wider audience. If researchers are able to process good information, we must understand that it is not the author who will benefit from this, it will be the community that it serves.
Things I've learned:
Open Access promulgated from the idea of "openness" and that are 2 different types of openness--the green route and the gold route.
The gold route. Think gold -- think money. We can derive a there's no such thing as free lunch to fit as the definition of this type of OA. This is where an article when accessed by a user undergoes a per article processing fee. But there are also instances in which private funding organizations support the idea of free open access journal publishing, thus they fund the use of OA for free to those who wish to access information for free (for public use). There is also the new idea of Hybrid journals which includes "a mix of author Paid (OA) and toll-based articles access (TA -- or could also be referred to as the subscription mode)
The green route is the opposite of the gold route. Green supports are one in seeking for the ultimate free-access system for research information.
Backtracking from the previous reading assignment, I've mentioned TRUST as part of intellectual rights and copyright issues. This topic is also present in this article as this is essential for publishers of online journals. In the end, it all boils down to the credibility of an article to pass a good research material and for it to reach a wider audience. If researchers are able to process good information, we must understand that it is not the author who will benefit from this, it will be the community that it serves.
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