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Open access : key strategic, technical and economic aspects / edited by Neil Jacobs.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Chandos, 2006.Description: 200 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781843342045 (hbk.) :
  • 9781843342038 (pbk.) :
  • 9781843342038 (pbk.) :
  • 1843342049 (cased) :
  • 1843342030 (pbk.)
  • 9781843342045 (cased) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.57973 JAC
LOC classification:
  • Z286.O63
Contents:
1.Overview of scholarly communication. Alma Swan -- 2.What is open access? Charles W. Bailey Jr. -- 3.Open access: a sympton and a promise/ Jean-Claude Gue�don -- 4.Economic costs of toll access. Andrew Odlyzko -- 5.The impact loss to authors and research. Michael Kurtz and Tim Brody -- 6.The technology of open access. Chris Awre -- 7.The culture of open access: researchers\' view and responses. Alma Swan -- 8.Opening access by overcoming Zeno\'s paralysis. Stevan Harnad -- 9.Researchers and institutional repositories. Arthur Sale -- 10.Open access to the research literature: a funder\'s perspective. Robert Terry and Robert Kiley -- 11.Business models in open access publishing. Matthew Cockerill -- 12.Learned society business models and open access. Mary Waltham -- 13.Open all hours? Institutional models for open access. Colin Steele -- 14.DARE also means dare: Instititonal repository status in The Netherlands as of early 2006. Leo Waaijers -- 15.Open access in the USA. Peter Suber -- 16.Towards open access to UK research. Frederick J. Friend -- 17.Open access in Australia. John Shipp -- 18.Open access in India. D.K. Sahu and Ramesh C. Parmar -- 19.Open computation: beyond human reader-centric views of scholarly literatures. Clifford Lynch -- 20.The open research web. Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Brody, Les Carr and Stevan Harnard.
Summary: This work provides an analysis of the key strategic, technical and economic aspects of open access. It defines the different varieties available and addresses misunderstandings which the term sometimes gives rise to. It also looks at current initiatives worldwide, including the USA, UK, India and Brazil.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 070.57973 JAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205193

Includes bibliographical references (p.217-234) and index.

1.Overview of scholarly communication. Alma Swan -- 2.What is open access? Charles W. Bailey Jr. -- 3.Open access: a sympton and a promise/ Jean-Claude Gue�don -- 4.Economic costs of toll access. Andrew Odlyzko -- 5.The impact loss to authors and research. Michael Kurtz and Tim Brody -- 6.The technology of open access. Chris Awre -- 7.The culture of open access: researchers\' view and responses. Alma Swan -- 8.Opening access by overcoming Zeno\'s paralysis. Stevan Harnad -- 9.Researchers and institutional repositories. Arthur Sale -- 10.Open access to the research literature: a funder\'s perspective. Robert Terry and Robert Kiley -- 11.Business models in open access publishing. Matthew Cockerill -- 12.Learned society business models and open access. Mary Waltham -- 13.Open all hours? Institutional models for open access. Colin Steele -- 14.DARE also means dare: Instititonal repository status in The Netherlands as of early 2006. Leo Waaijers -- 15.Open access in the USA. Peter Suber -- 16.Towards open access to UK research. Frederick J. Friend -- 17.Open access in Australia. John Shipp -- 18.Open access in India. D.K. Sahu and Ramesh C. Parmar -- 19.Open computation: beyond human reader-centric views of scholarly literatures. Clifford Lynch -- 20.The open research web. Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Brody, Les Carr and Stevan Harnard.

This work provides an analysis of the key strategic, technical and economic aspects of open access. It defines the different varieties available and addresses misunderstandings which the term sometimes gives rise to. It also looks at current initiatives worldwide, including the USA, UK, India and Brazil.

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