Detail Free-for-all; Academic Publishing   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8834 (May 2013), page 71. Topik: Publishing Industry; Trade Publications; Open Access Publishing; Trends Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.76 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel And SCOAP{+3}, a consortium of particle-physics laboratories, libraries and funding agencies, is pressing all 12 of the field's leading journals to make the 7,000 articles they publish each year free to read. For scientific publishers, it seems, the party may soon be over. The current enterprise--selling the results of other people's work, submitted free of charge and vetted for nothing by third parties in a process called peer review, has been immensely profitable. Such firms are now, though, faced with competitors set up explicitly to cover only their costs. Some rely on charity, but many have a proper business model: academics pay a fee to be published. So commercial publishers, too, are setting up open-access subsidiaries. The biggest is BioMed Central, part of Springer. In the past year Elsevier has more than doubled the number of open-access journals it publishes, to 39. And even in those that usually charge readers paying a publication fee makes a paper available free immediately. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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