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The future for journal publishers Charlie Rapple has blogged some notes on a talk by John Cox (unclear when or where --probably the UKSG meeting in Warwick). Excerpt:
Comment. OA is a kind of access, not a kind of business model. It's not only compatible with many different business models, but it's already supported by many different business models. However, Cox is otherwise right --if I may paraphrase him this way-- that the future for publishers lies in adding value to OA content. OA is not going away and the OA percentage of peer-reviewed journal literature will only keep growing. Some publishers will offer OA themselves and recover their costs from sources other than readers. Others will charge readers for access to enhanced versions of the OA literature. Some of these enhancements will themselves be OA, but some will be unavailable gratis and worth paying for. For those publishers who want to charge for access, as opposed to another kind of service, the new struggle will be to stay ahead of the creeping gift economy that will find ways to make each new enhancement available to end users free of charge. Update. Also see Rapple's notes on Sally Morris' talk at the same conference. |