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  • University of Nairobi Open Access Policy

    The Open Access policy will provide our scholars the opportunity and platform to promote their academic work by enhancing access to research outputs. Further, the policy will enhance the visibility and impact of our research output and archiving of our scholarly materials. more

  • Open Access Business Models for Research Funders and Universities

    This study covers the types of business model used for open access to publicly-funded research content. Various organizational structures developed to offer open access to publicly-funded research content are examined from the perspective of publicly-funded institutions and organizations. Business models for publicly-funded institutions can be built from elements which a commercial business... more

  • A Study of Four Textbook Distribution Models

    In preparation for campus-wide e-text adoption, Daytona State College completed a two-year comparative study of four textbook distribution models: print purchase, print rental, e-text rental, and e-text rental with e-reader device. Though faculty and administrators may embrace e-texts, students often prefer to rent printed textbooks. Institutions seeking to implement campus-wide e-text... more

  • #Open Textbook tweet: Driving the Awareness and Adoption of Open Textbooks

    This collection of tweets seeks to answer key questions for those who might support open textbooks, and the future of the open textbook movement more

  • A Cover to Cover Solution: How Open Textbooks are the Path to Textbook Affordability

    The Student PIRGs conducted this study to evaluate the long-term potential of new lower-cost options for college textbooks which include cost-reducing options for traditional text books, such as e-Books, e-Readers, rentals and alternative publishing models. In 2010 a survey was conducted with students from 10 campuses and an analysis of text book prices for 10 common college subjects. This... more

  • Immediate Practical Implication of the Houghton Report: Provide Green Open Access Now

    Among the many important implications of Houghton et al.?s (2009) timely and illuminating JISC analysis of the costs and benefits of providing free online access to peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific journal articles, one stands out as particularly compelling: It would yield a 40-fold benefit/cost ratio if the world?s peer-reviewed research were all self-archived by its authors so as to... more

  • Openness in Academic Publication: The Question of Trust, Authority and Reliability

    John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim have rebuffed many of the claims made around the prevalent economic model(s) of academic publishing. They support the contention that there is much to be gained from a shift to open access dissemination of scholarly research. While the economic case seems clear, unfortunately this is not the whole picture; there are other costs and benefits related to the... more

  • Minerva's Owl. A Reponse to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models'

    Houghton and Oppenheim?s cost?benefit analysis of different forms of scholarly publishing is a major contribution in considering the case for open access and for open institutional repositories as a standard resource in publicly-funded universities.In what follows, I will draw out some specific aspects of Houghton and Oppenheim?s cost?benefit analysis in order to explore these wider issues. more

  • Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Views from a Non-Economist

    The Houghton and Oppenheim paper and the JISC report focus on three publishing models: subscription publishing; open access (OA) publishing (often called ?Gold OA?); and open access self-archiving. The author responds respond both as an academic who conducts research, writes about it and tries to get it published, and as a researcher interested in scholarly communication, publishing and open... more

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