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Funding Community Controlled Open Infrastructure For Scholarly Communication: The 2.5% Commitment Initiative, David W. Lewis, Lori Goetsch, Diane J. Graves, Mike Roy
Funding Community Controlled Open Infrastructure For Scholarly Communication: The 2.5% Commitment Initiative, David W. Lewis, Lori Goetsch, Diane J. Graves, Mike Roy
Library Faculty Research
In August 2017, a short paper, “The 2.5% Commitment,” was distributed on several email lists. The paper proposed that every academic library should commit to invest 2.5% of its total budget to support the common infrastructure needed to create the open scholarly commons. Somewhat to our surprise, the paper and the ideas it contained have generated widespread discussions and interest. The paper was a response to the Elsevier purchase of Bepress and an article by John Wenzler that suggested that academic libraries faced a collective action problem, and that as a result they would never be able to create the …
Coates Library: Support For Open Access Scholarly Publishing, Beatrice L. Caraway
Coates Library: Support For Open Access Scholarly Publishing, Beatrice L. Caraway
Library Administrative Documents
A document listing the ways that Coates Library supports Open Access scholarly publishing.