A Turning Point for Scholarly Publishing – Open Access

A Turning Point for Scholarly Publishing – Open Access

Though initiatives to make published research more freely available have for years poked at the publishing industry’s armor, these efforts — known as the open-access movement — have not toppled the norms of how academic work is distributed and read.

TAKEAWAYS:

• Bottom-up efforts and top-down decrees make this a major turning point for open-access publishing.
• Some large library systems are pursuing new types of subscription packages with publishers. Negotiators want one package that would cover subscription charges and open-access publishing fees.
• National research foundations in about a dozen European countries have joined a coalition that would force the academics they fund to publish their research under an open-access model. Comments on implementation were due in February.
• One challenge: Departments largely do not consider open-access publication in their promotion-and-tenure decisions.

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