Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)


Das Jahr 2011 in der internationalen Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:56 PM PST

Paper weight

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:25 AM PST

 
Paper weight
Thoughts on Scholarly Publishing, (08 Dec 2011)
" In the OAPEN-NL pilot, we have asked the publishers to share their costs with us. We received the results from several Dutch publishers; about 35 books.... In order to publish a monograph, publishers need to invest an average amount of about €16000. More than half of the costs are directly connected to paper; one third of all costs consist of printing and distributing paper books....This is the rationale behind book publishing in Open Access: make the monograph available online, without any restrictions. The information is better used in this way, and not restricted to 300 libraries. Of course, the costs are less high. Good news for funders, good news for scientists and maybe even good news for publishers: a new business model that will allow them to keep on publishing monographs...."

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