Speaker
Summary
Drawing on a recent study for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), John Houghton will describe the approach used to explore the Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models and summarise the studies main findings, with an emphasis on self-archiving and repositories. The JISC study explored three alternative open access publishing models: (i) open access publishing using the 'author-pays' model, (ii) 'Green' open access self-archiving in parallel with subscription publishing, and (iii) the 'deconstructed' or 'overlay journals' model of self-archiving supplemented by overlay peer-review and production services. Preliminary analysis suggests that both the self-archiving and repositories models (i.e. 'Green OA' and 'overlay journals') may be more cost-effective than 'author-pays' publishing.
