{"id":271,"date":"2009-08-05T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-08-05T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:08:24","slug":"new-paper-on-oa-in-plos-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2009\/08\/05\/new-paper-on-oa-in-plos-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper on OA in PLoS Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"

My paper<\/a> on the “open-access compact” is now available from PLoS Biology<\/a> and at my web site<\/a>. An excerpt:<\/p>\n

Scholars write articles to be read\u2014the more access to their articles the better\u2014so one might think that the open-access approach to publishing, in which articles are freely available online to all without interposition of an access fee, would be an attractive competitor to traditional subscription-based journal publishing.<\/p>\n

But open-access journal publishing is currently at a systematic disadvantage relative to the traditional model.<\/p>\n

I propose a simple, cost-effective remedy to this inequity that would put open-access publishing on a path to become a sustainable, efficient system, allowing the two journal publishing systems to compete on a more level playing field. The issue is important, first, because academic institutions shouldn\u2019t perpetuate barriers to an open-access business model on principle and, second, because the subscription-fee business model has manifested systemic dysfunctionalities in practice. After describing the problem with the subscription-fee model, I turn to the proposal for providing equity for open-access journal publishing\u2014the open-access compact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My paper on the “open-access compact” is now available from PLoS Biology and at my web site. An excerpt: Scholars write articles to be read\u2014the more access to their articles the better\u2014so one might think that the open-access approach to publishing, in which articles are freely available online to all without interposition of an access […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[618,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-access","category-scholarly-communication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5pLfN-4n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":666,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2011\/01\/15\/a-ray-of-sunshine-in-the-open-access-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":271,"position":0},"title":"A ray of sunshine in the open-access future","author":"Stuart Shieber","date":"Saturday, January 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Used by permission of PLoS I'm flying back from Berlin, where I gave talks at the Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference and the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) Symposium. 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