The aim of this article is to report on an experiment in publishing an open access
journal and learn from it about the larger field of open access publishing. The
experiment is the launch of the European Journal of Comparative Economics (EJCE),
an on-line refereed and open access journal, founded in 2004 by the European
Association for Comparative Economic Studies and LIUC University in Italy. They
embarked upon this project in part to respond to the rising concentration in the market
for scientific publishing and the resulting use of market power to raise subscription
prices and restrict access to scientific output. We had hoped that open access journals
could provide some countervailing power and increase competition in the field. Our
experience running a poorly endowed journal has shown that entry to the field may be
easy, yet that making it a sustainable enterprise is not straightforward.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 2/25/2009 01:30:00 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.