Elsevier is assessing new pricing models which could see archive databases attached to journal subscriptions. The scientific publishing giant is collaborating with major libraries and believes there is demand for a return to title by title subscriptions with the added benefit of access to comprehensive databases. Elsevier senior VP Karen Hunter...believes that the information and publishing sector is in a period of unprecedented uncertainty. “How we make relevant information available and make a business case is not clear,” she said. Elsevier is assessing new models to understand what scientific users will pay for. “Publishers cannot give anything up,” she said of existing services, but also had to modernise and look for new services. “What publishers have to avoid is what happened to computers: every year users expected a better product for a lower price,” she said, referring to the decline of the PC market.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/24/2006 03:19:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
