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Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarians' Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based On A Paper Presented At The 36th Uksg Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013, Jill Emery Jul 2013

Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarians' Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based On A Paper Presented At The 36th Uksg Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2012, the author and colleagues surveyed eight publishers that had been involved with the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project to learn about the state of hybrid journal publishing. At the same time, one of the key questions asked to a panel of librarians at the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers May 2012 Meeting was what role librarians would play if scholarly publishing shortly went open access (OA) across the board? From the survey of the market, and the rapid OA developments in the UK and EU that include hybrid OA, a picture …


The California Geographer And The Oa Movement: Using The Green Oa Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform, Michael Biondo, Andrew Weiss Jun 2013

The California Geographer And The Oa Movement: Using The Green Oa Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform, Michael Biondo, Andrew Weiss

Michael Biondo

Publishing in open access has been largely dominated by Gold OA
journals. Publication in these journals, which in some cases have
developed as the leading scholarly journals in their respective
disciplines, provides immediate dissemination of information, a greater
likelihood of citations for authors, and costs less than traditional publishing
venues (Wagner, 2010). Lesk (2012) estimates that publisher Elsevier spends
about $10,000 per article published, while the Public Library of Science
(PLoS), a prominent Gold OA journal, spends only about $1,500 per article.
PLoS’ fee-based approach is a vital part of the open access movement even
as it erects economic obstacles …


Publishing Open Access E-Journals: Leveraging An Outreach Opportunity, Laura Edwards, Linda Sizemore, Kelly Smith Jan 2013

Publishing Open Access E-Journals: Leveraging An Outreach Opportunity, Laura Edwards, Linda Sizemore, Kelly Smith

Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations

Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Libraries began exploring the institutional repository (IR) landscape in 2009 with the intention of publishing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), journals, special collections, images, videos, sound files, or anything else that would fit a need for us. The hosted systems we examined were effective as either platforms for displaying special collections or platforms for managing publishing processes. However, we didn’t find a system that did both of those things well.


Compelling And Necessary Momentum: A Recent Timeline In Open Access, Ivan Gaetz Jan 2013

Compelling And Necessary Momentum: A Recent Timeline In Open Access, Ivan Gaetz

Collaborative Librarianship

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