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Electronic scholarly publishing and open access

Charles Oppenheim*

Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.


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A review of recent developments in electronic publishing, with a focus on Open Access (OA) is provided. It describes the two main types of OA, i.e. the ‘gold’ OA journal route and the ‘green’ repository route, high-lighting the advantages and disadvantages of the two, and the reactions of the publishing industry to these developments. Quality, cost and copyright issues are explored, as well as some of the business models of OA. It is noted that whilst so far there is no evidence that a shift to OA will lead to libraries cancelling subscriptions to toll-access journals, this may happen in the future, and that despite the apparently compelling reasons for authors to move to OA, so far few have shown themselves willing to do so. Conclusions about the future of scholarly publications are drawn.

Key Words: electronic publishing; institutional repositories; open access; scholarly publishing

First published on June 13, 2008, doi:10.1177/0165551508092268

Journal of Information Science 2008;34:577.

A more recent version of this article appeared on August 1, 2008

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