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 exp...
In university libraries and the scholarly community, there is growing concern with the high costs of...
<p>This is an article I wrote for DG Research, Science and Innovation of the European Commission as ...
The Internet has enabled efficient electronic publishing of scholarly journals and Open Access busin...
Open access is a new model for the publishing of scientific journals enabled by the Internet, in whi...
The open access (OA) model for journals is compared to the open source principle for computer softwa...
This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from ...
This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from ...
Introduction. Open access, the notion that research output, such as journal articles, should be free...
The article describes the evolution of scholarly communication through scholarly journals. It gives ...
In recent years, Open Access has received increased attention by scholars and practitioners as an al...
The Internet has fundamentally changed the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals and the wa...
Influential scientists are urging journal publishers to free their published works so they can be ac...
The extent to which people living in developing countries have access to scholarly literature has hi...
This article offers a personal perspective on the current state of academic publishing, and posits t...
Over the last 25 years, scholars around the world have used electronic publishing to open up their w...
In university libraries and the scholarly community, there is growing concern with the high costs of...
<p>This is an article I wrote for DG Research, Science and Innovation of the European Commission as ...
The Internet has enabled efficient electronic publishing of scholarly journals and Open Access busin...
Open access is a new model for the publishing of scientific journals enabled by the Internet, in whi...
The open access (OA) model for journals is compared to the open source principle for computer softwa...
This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from ...
This article presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from ...
Introduction. Open access, the notion that research output, such as journal articles, should be free...
The article describes the evolution of scholarly communication through scholarly journals. It gives ...
In recent years, Open Access has received increased attention by scholars and practitioners as an al...
The Internet has fundamentally changed the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals and the wa...
Influential scientists are urging journal publishers to free their published works so they can be ac...
The extent to which people living in developing countries have access to scholarly literature has hi...
This article offers a personal perspective on the current state of academic publishing, and posits t...
Over the last 25 years, scholars around the world have used electronic publishing to open up their w...
In university libraries and the scholarly community, there is growing concern with the high costs of...
<p>This is an article I wrote for DG Research, Science and Innovation of the European Commission as ...
The Internet has enabled efficient electronic publishing of scholarly journals and Open Access busin...