Add to ORKGThe potential for free access to scholarly documents on the Internet continues to occupy the minds of all actors in scholarly communication. While there is much agreement that free access is desirable, there is little agreement about how this will come about. We have been actively involved in this transition through our work on two major initiatives in this area. These are arXiv, which covers Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science and RePEc, which covers Economics. We discuss the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the Academic Metadata Format (AMF). These discussions inform our proposal of a conceptual framework for the transition to free online scholarship. We pay particular attention to the role that digital libraries play in the trans...
It can be easy to forget, as a digital humanities scholar, that most humanists are only just acclima...
The mean price of scholarly journals is now three times higher than it was in the mid-1980s. In the ...
This paper discusses the concept of the "Open Academic Library". The idea refers to a freely availab...
The potential for free access to scholarly documents on the Internet continues to occupy the minds o...
Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communicati...
There are three important frontiers in moving from subscription-based scholarly publications to del...
There are three important frontiers in moving from subscription-based scholarly publications to deli...
Describes an action research project on scholarly communication in early stages. Research sites inc...
[Introduction] Since World War II, we have seen a proliferation of scholarly materials. In particula...
The current model of scholarly communications fails to meet the information needs of researchers wor...
The Internet has made possible to provide free-of-charge online access to all the digital literature...
More scholars are exploring forms of digital dissemination, including open access (OA) systems where...
A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfig...
Advances in scholarship rely on the effective communication of research results. Discoveries need to...
The economics of scholarly publishing are incredibly tangled. Even Harvard University cannot afford ...
It can be easy to forget, as a digital humanities scholar, that most humanists are only just acclima...
The mean price of scholarly journals is now three times higher than it was in the mid-1980s. In the ...
This paper discusses the concept of the "Open Academic Library". The idea refers to a freely availab...
The potential for free access to scholarly documents on the Internet continues to occupy the minds o...
Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communicati...
There are three important frontiers in moving from subscription-based scholarly publications to del...
There are three important frontiers in moving from subscription-based scholarly publications to deli...
Describes an action research project on scholarly communication in early stages. Research sites inc...
[Introduction] Since World War II, we have seen a proliferation of scholarly materials. In particula...
The current model of scholarly communications fails to meet the information needs of researchers wor...
The Internet has made possible to provide free-of-charge online access to all the digital literature...
More scholars are exploring forms of digital dissemination, including open access (OA) systems where...
A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfig...
Advances in scholarship rely on the effective communication of research results. Discoveries need to...
The economics of scholarly publishing are incredibly tangled. Even Harvard University cannot afford ...
It can be easy to forget, as a digital humanities scholar, that most humanists are only just acclima...
The mean price of scholarly journals is now three times higher than it was in the mid-1980s. In the ...
This paper discusses the concept of the "Open Academic Library". The idea refers to a freely availab...
