The Product and Pricing of Scholarly Journals

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-55
Author(s):  
Albert N. Greco
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
University Presses ◽  
Financial Issues ◽  
Gold Open Access

In the last 350-plus years, as various fields of academic research developed and grew, the need for high-quality scholarly journals emerged to transmit the latest scientific discoveries and theories. This allowed scholarly journals to gain the preeminent foothold in scientific academic and research centers. Ironically, the birth of the modern scholarly journal had a rather unusual and unplanned history. This chapter provides an overview of the history and development of print and digital scholarly journals, including the gold open access movement. Attention is paid to the roles played by university presses, learned societies, libraries, and commercial scholarly publishers. Financial issues are addressed, including a detailed sample profit and loss (P&L) statement.

scholarly journals Negotiating Open Access Journal Agreements: An Academic Library Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Mihoko Hosoi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Scholarly Journals

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for academic libraries to advance open access (OA) to scholarly articles. Awareness among faculty on the importance of OA has increased significantly during the pandemic, as colleges and universities struggle financially and seek sustainable access to high-quality scholarly journals. Consortia have played an important role in establishing negotiation principles on OA journal agreements. While the number of OA agreements is increasing, case studies involving individual libraries are still limited. This paper reviews existing literature on publisher negotiation principles related to OA journal negotiations and reflects on recent cases at an academic library in Pennsylvania, in order to identify best practices in OA journal negotiations. It provides recommendations on roles, relationships, and processes, as well as essential terms of OA journal agreements. This study’s findings are most relevant to large academic libraries that are interested in negotiating with scholarly journal publishers independently or through consortia.

scholarly journals Geotechnics: Welcome to A New Open Access Journal for A Growing Multidisciplinary Community

Geotechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-218
Author(s):  
Brendan C. O’Kelly ◽  
Pinnaduwa H. S. W. Kulatilake ◽  
George E. Mylonakis
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Rock Engineering ◽  
Quality Research

On behalf of the editorial board and MDPI Publishing, may we extend a very warm welcome to this first editorial of Geotechnics—a new and international, open access, scholarly journal aimed at showcasing and nurturing high-quality research and developmental activities in soil and rock engineering and geo-environmental engineering, worldwide [...]

scholarly journals Open Access and Academic Journals in Canada: A Political Science Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-922
Author(s):  
Martin Papillon ◽  
Brenda O'Neill ◽  
Mélanie Bourque ◽  
Alex Marland ◽  
Graham White
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Association

AbstractThe push to implement Open Access (OA) as the new standard for academic research dissemination is creating very real pressures on academic journals. In Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) recently adopted a policy requiring that journals applying for its Aid to Scholarly Journals (ASJ) grant make their scholarly content freely accessible after no more than a 12-month delay. For journals such as the Canadian Journal of Political Science (CJPS) that not only publish high-quality, peer-reviewed articles to a specialized audience but also support the work of scholarly associations through the revenues they generate, the push to move to OA comes with a number of challenges. The Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) and the Société québécoise de science politique (SQSP) established a committee to chart the best course of action for the CJPS in light of this changing landscape. This article summarizes the key findings of the committee and underscores some of the challenges of OA for journals with a profile similar to the CJPS, as well as for the broader research ecosystem that they support.

scholarly journals Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave S. Ghamandi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
Systems Of Domination ◽  
Fair Deal

This commentary examines political and economic aspects of open access (OA) and scholarly journal publishing. Through a discourse of critique, neoliberalism is analyzed as an ideology causing many problems in the scholarly journal publishing industry, including the serials crisis. Two major efforts in the open access movement that promote an increase in OA funded by article-processing charges (APC) —the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) and Pay It Forward (PIF) initiatives—are critiqued as neoliberal frameworks that would perpetuate existing systems of domination and exploitation. In a discourse of possibility, ways of building a post-neoliberal system of journal publishing using new tactics and strategies, merging theory and praxis, and grounding in solidarity and cooperation are presented. This includes organizing journal publishing democratically using cooperatives, which could decommodify knowledge and provide greater open access. The article concludes with a vision for a New Fair Deal, which would revolutionize the system of scholarly journal publishing by transitioning journals to library publishing cooperatives.

scholarly journals Medical and health sciences academics’ behaviours and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals: a perspective from South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoung Hee Joung ◽  
Jennifer Rowley ◽  
Laura Sbaffi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Gold Open Access

This article seeks to extend the knowledge of the behaviour and attitudes towards open access publishing through a survey that focusses on the attitudes and behaviours of academic researchers in Korea working in medicine and healthcare. Issues covered include: use of and intentions regarding OAP, and perceptions regarding advantages and disadvantages of OAP, journal article publication services, peer review, and re-use. A significant proportion of the articles (mean 58%) published by this group are published gold open access, consistent with the push in Korea towards international impact for their research. Researchers were more positive about the benefits of OAP than they were negative about its disadvantages. Analysis of responses on the basis of gender, and experience in publishing, showed some significant differences in attitudes to some statements.

scholarly journals International Development and Research Capacities: Increasing Access to African Scholarly Publishing

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Scott Metcalfe ◽  
Samuel Esseh ◽  
John Willinsky
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
International Development ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Online Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
Research Initiatives

This paper examines the evolving relationship between Canada and the African academic research community through the promotion of a concept known as Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) and with an eye to its implications for increasing the circulation of research through such means as open access (OA) publishing models. We analyze the programmatic discourse of Canada’s International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) African research initiatives, and report on an IDRC research and development project assessing the means of increasing access to African scholarly journals through the use of open source software platforms and open access publishing and archiving models. Consistent with IDRC’s multi-year effort to contribute directly to university-based research capacities by investing in ICT infrastructure in Africa, our survey of African editors, librarians, and faculty from five African nations reveals a similar interest in developing those capacities, despite numerous challenges, through the use of online publishing systems and OA publishing models, which hold some promise of increasing access to research published in Africa.  

scholarly journals Verplicht open access publiceren: de doodsteek voor een learned society? De Vereniging voor Gendergeschiedenis als casus1

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
Margit van der Steen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Vereniging Voor ◽  
Financial Aspect

Abstract The author investigates the possible consequences of open access for learned societies with their own journal, such as the Dutch‐Flemish association for gender history. For learned societies, the advantage of open access is that contributions in their journals become easily accessible for researchers. But, it remains uncertain whether small associations are able to meet the technical requirements for open access. More important is the financial aspect. When the content of the journals of learned societies has to be online and freely accessible, members may no longer wish to support these associations financially. When the associations start losing members, they are affected financially and may no longer have the means to publish their journals. In this situation, they may lose more members and may, in the end, even be threatened in their existence. This has other consequences as well, because learned societies and their journals contribute to the diversity and vitality of the humanities and allow a wide audience to become acquainted with results from academic research.

scholarly journals A new funding model and improved infrastructure for the Finnish Open Access journals

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Jyrki Ilva ◽  
Johanna Lilja
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
National Library ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Learned Societies

<p>A new project launched by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and the National Library of Finland will be looking for ways to make Open Access publishing more viable for the Finnish scholarly journals. Most of the journals are published by small learned societies with modest resources. The project will investigate potential new funding models for the OA journals and develop improved technological infrastructure for them.</p>

scholarly journals The Inevitability of Open Access

2012 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Scholarly Journals

Open access (OA) is an alternative business model for the publication of scholarly journals. It makes articles freely available to readers on the Internet and covers the costs associated with publication through means other than subscriptions. This article argues that Gold OA, where all of the articles of a journal are available at the time of publication, is a disruptive innovation as defined by business theorist Clayton Christensen. Using methods described by Christensen, we can predict the growth of Gold OA. This analysis suggests that Gold OA could account for 50 percent of the scholarly journal articles sometime between 2017 and 2021, and 90 percent of articles as soon as 2020 and more conservatively by 2025.

scholarly journals Comparison and Review of 17 E-Book Platforms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lavender ◽  
Courtney McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Delivery ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
University Presses ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The University ◽  
Law Library

The University of Michigan Press, with support from the Mellon Foundation, asked John Lavender, of Lavender Consulting, to conduct a review of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book collection (HEB) following its launch on Michigan’s new Fulcrum platform. ACLS-HEB is an online collection of over 5,400 high-quality humanities books from over 100 publishers. Now that the market for e-books has matured, part of the review was a comparative study of e-book platforms run by publishers, university presses and e-book vendors; 17 platforms were selected. The review looked at the key features offered by each platform, how they handled searching, content delivery, displaying results, ability to view and download and other key features, there was no attempt to judge the value of the content. Following this review, Michigan Press felt that it would be beneficial to share the results with the wider community. As well as being of interest to publishers, the review will also be relevant for librarians making purchasing decisions and vendors selling e-book services. In addition to synthesizing the results of the e-book platform review, this paper presents a librarian’s perspectives on e-book assessment criteria. Courtney McAllister, Electronic Resources Librarian at Yale University’s Law Library, describes the importance of attributes such as accessibility compliance, library branding, and metadata. Library collections are shaped by a plethora of concerns and criteria. This paper seeks to outline some key elements to consider as part of e-book platform decision-making.

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