Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing
The health of the research enterprise is closely tied to the effectiveness of the scientific and scholarly publishing ecosystem. Policy-, technology-, and market-driven changes in publishing models over the last two decades have triggered a number of disruptions within this ecosystem: ● Ongoin...
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| author | Sharp, Phillip Bonvillian, William Desimone, Robert Imperiali, Barbara Karger, David Mavhunga, Chakanetsa Brand, Amy Lindsay, Nick Stebbins, Michael |
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| description | The health of the research enterprise is closely tied to the effectiveness of the
scientific and scholarly publishing ecosystem. Policy-, technology-, and
market-driven changes in publishing models over the last two decades have
triggered a number of disruptions within this ecosystem:
● Ongoing increases in the cost of journal publishing, with dominant open
access models shifting costs from subscribers to authors
● Significant consolidation and vertical (supply chain) integration in the
publishing industry, and a decline in society-owned subscription journals
that have long subsidized scientific and scholarly societies
● A dramatic increase in the number of “predatory” journals with substandard
peer review
● Decline in the purchasing power of academic libraries relative to the quantity
and cost of published research
To illustrate how researcher behavior, funder policies, and publisher business
models and incentives interact, this report presents an historical overview of open
access publishing. The report also provides a list of key questions for further
investigation to understand, measure, and best prepare for the impact of new
policies related to open access in research publishing, categorized into six general
areas: access and business models, research data, preprint publishing, peer review,
costs to researchers and universities, and infrastructure. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1524142024-02-21T05:12:42Z Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing Sharp, Phillip Bonvillian, William Desimone, Robert Imperiali, Barbara Karger, David Mavhunga, Chakanetsa Brand, Amy Lindsay, Nick Stebbins, Michael Open science, publishing models, academic publishing, peer review, misinformation open access The health of the research enterprise is closely tied to the effectiveness of the scientific and scholarly publishing ecosystem. Policy-, technology-, and market-driven changes in publishing models over the last two decades have triggered a number of disruptions within this ecosystem: ● Ongoing increases in the cost of journal publishing, with dominant open access models shifting costs from subscribers to authors ● Significant consolidation and vertical (supply chain) integration in the publishing industry, and a decline in society-owned subscription journals that have long subsidized scientific and scholarly societies ● A dramatic increase in the number of “predatory” journals with substandard peer review ● Decline in the purchasing power of academic libraries relative to the quantity and cost of published research To illustrate how researcher behavior, funder policies, and publisher business models and incentives interact, this report presents an historical overview of open access publishing. The report also provides a list of key questions for further investigation to understand, measure, and best prepare for the impact of new policies related to open access in research publishing, categorized into six general areas: access and business models, research data, preprint publishing, peer review, costs to researchers and universities, and infrastructure. 2023-10-11T17:35:00Z 2023-10-11T17:35:00Z 2023-10-11 Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152414 en Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Open science, publishing models, academic publishing, peer review, misinformation open access Sharp, Phillip Bonvillian, William Desimone, Robert Imperiali, Barbara Karger, David Mavhunga, Chakanetsa Brand, Amy Lindsay, Nick Stebbins, Michael Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing |
| title | Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing |
| title_full | Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing |
| title_fullStr | Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing |
| title_short | Access to science and scholarship: key questions about the future of research publishing |
| title_sort | access to science and scholarship key questions about the future of research publishing |
| topic | Open science, publishing models, academic publishing, peer review, misinformation open access |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152414 |
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