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HotTopics: Publishers Speak Up On Open Access: Big Promise, Small Uptake

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Author: Bette Brunelle, Affiliate Analyst

Open access is a topic very much on the minds of Scientific, Technical & Medical publishers. This HotTopics focuses on open access’s merits as a sustainable business model and an alternative to subscriptions.

This HotTopics provides you with:
- A sampling of publishers’ attitudes toward and experiences with open access, from organizations such as Elsevier and Oxford University Press
- Examples of recent successes and real-world business challenges with open access
- A chart with descriptions of 18 publishers’ sponsored open access programs
- Conditions enabling sponsored open access to work as a revenue model
- Outsell’s essential actions for the scholarly publishing community

In preparing for this HotTopics, Outsell reviewed secondary literature on open access and conducted interviews with 10 publishers that are very experienced with open access programs or have a unique perspective on them; these comprised traditional publishers with open access programs as well as newer open access publishers.



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Pub Date: November 17, 2006
Type: Briefing, HotTopic
Segments: Segments: IM STM
Keywords: Best Practices, Business Models, Strategy
Pages: 30
Format: PDF Application_pdf

Table of Contents

  • Why This Topic?
    • Methodology
  • Defining Open Access
  • Open Access Finally Heats Up in 2006
  • Traditional Publishers Agnostic on Author-Sponsored Open Access
    • OUP Shares Extensive Data on the Oxford Open Program
    • HighWire Press Reflects Collective Early Experience
    • Publisher Advice Reflects Variations in Experience
  • Open Access Publishers Report Recent Success
  • Archiving and Repositories Loom over the Open Access Landscape
  • What to Make of All This?
  • Outsell’s List of Essential Actions
  • Companies Mentioned in This HotTopics
  • - American Association of Neurological Surgeons
  • - American Chemical Society
  • - American Institute of Physics
  • - American Physical Society
  • - American Society of Plant Biologists
  • - BioMed Central
  • - BMJ Publishing Group
  • - Blackwell
  • - Cambridge University Press
  • - Elsevier
  • - HighWire Press
  • - Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  • - Optical Society of America
  • - Oxford University Press
  • - PLoS
  • - The Royal Society
  • - Royal Society of Chemistry
  • - Springer
  • - Taylor and Francis Group
  • - John Wiley & Sons
  • Appendix: Sponsored Open Access At-a-Glance