OPEN ACCESS IN THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY: BENEFITS AND ISSUES FOR LIBRARIANS, PUBLISHERS

AND AUTHORS

Presented by Silvia Vong on June 18, 2009 for LIS 9104 (Publishing, Media and Librarianship)

The Librarian

Redistributing budget needs

Right to retain, archive and loan works

Digital preservation

Relevancy in academic community (research help)

Benefits: Issues:

The Publisher

Faster publishing times

Cost-effective

Cost of digitizing pre-digital articles

Adopting a business model that works for all parties involved

Benefits: Issues:

The Author / Faculty

Academic freedom

Copyrights Visibility Time to publish

Credibility of the publication

Peer review issues

Tenure track for faculty

Benefits: Issues:

Issues in Credibility: Would you publish with an open access journal?

A student submitted an article to Bentham Science Publishers

The article was a computer-generated document that was out of context (complete nonsense)

The journal sent an e-mail to the student indicating that the article was accepted and the author fee for publishing with the journal

Links to articles on the case:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17288-spoof-paper-accepted-by-peerreviewed-journal.html

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/06/10/nonsense-for-dollars/