University Presses Take Their Stand [on open access/publishing]
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: University Presses Take Their Stand [on open access/publishing]
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:28:01 -0500
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http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/28/open
February 28, 2007 | Inside Higher Ed
University Presses Take Their Stand
By Scott Jaschik
The open access debate is one of the hottest topics in academic
publishing, with advocates for access and publishers battling for
political and public support. University presses have been feeling
somewhat in the middle and sometimes ignored -- and they responded
Tuesday with a policy paper
(http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/oa/statement.pdf) outlining their
perspective.
In many respects, the document from the Association of American
University Presses focuses on potential harm that could be done to their
operations by the open access model, talking about the potential for it
to hurt circulation revenues, and emphasizing that university presses
are not exactly wealthy institutions. But the paper also talks about the
many experiments university presses are undertaking with open access or
alternative pricing models -- and goes one further. While the open
access debate has focused on scholarly journals, the presses suggest
that models that work for journals may well also work for monographs.
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