(The) economics of open access : on the future of academic publishing

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments = viii
• List of abbreviations = ix
• 1 Introduction = 1
• 1.1 Development of the academic publishing market and the serials crisis = 1
• 1.2 Copyright protection in academic publishing = 3
• 1.3 The origins of open access in academic publishing = 6
• 2 The academic publishing market = 10
• 2.1 The economics of academic publishing = 10
• 2.1.1 The reward structure in science = 10
• 2.1.2 The organization of academic publishing = 12
• 2.2 The academic journal publishing market = 15
• 2.2.1 The supply side = 16
• 2.2.2 The demand side : journal prices and the serials crisis = 23
• 2.3 The open access movement = 29
• 2.3.1 Open access publishing : an overview = 29
• 2.3.2 Recent developments = 44
• 2.4 Preliminary results = 55
• 3 An international survey analysis = 57
• 3.1 Research setting = 57
• 3.1.1 Research questions = 57
• 3.1.2 Conducting the survey = 58
• 3.2 Descriptive statistics = 59
• 3.2.1 A general overview = 59
• 3.2.2 By research field = 62
• 3.2.3 By country = 67
• 3.3 Empirical analysis = 72
• 3.3.1 Method = 72
• 3.3.2 The gold road = 73
• 3.3.3 The green road = 88
• 3.4 General conclusions = 96
• 4 Policy implications and the way forward = 97
• 4.1 Alternative policy instruments = 97
• 4.2 The financial viability of a large-scale transition to gold OA = 98
• 4.3 Limits to OA = 102
• 4.3.1 Limits to gold OA = 102
• 4.3.2 Limits to green OA = 107
• 4.4 Fundamental requirements for an efficient transition to OA = 107
• 4.4.1 Proper incentives for academic publishers = 108
• 4.4.2 Quality assurance = 109
• 4.4.3 Proper assessment of scholars = 112
• 4.4.4 Guarantee of academic freedom = 114
• 4.5 Conclusions = 115
• 5 Summary and outlook = 117
• Appendix 1 The academic journal market = 123
• The data = 123
• Journals in different fields of research = 127
• Appendix 2 Open access journals = 128
• The DOAJ data = 128
• OA journals in different fields of research = 130
• Appendix 3 An international survey analysis = 131
• Descriptive statistics = 131
• Empirical results = 133
• Appendix 4 The questionnaire = 137
• Part A : Personal questions = 137
• Part B1 : Gold road of OA (i.e. OA journals) = 139
• Part B2 : Rating of OA journals = 140
• Part C1 : The green road (OA repositories) = 141
• Part C2 : Rating of OA repositories = 143
• References = 144
• Index = 153