PR Wars Heat Up in Open-Access Publishing
Nov 20, 2003
This very brief item is a good survey of the conflict between open access and subscription academic publications. "The economics of scholarly publishing can best be described as broken and dysfunctional. Fewer and more powerful publishers are in ongoing struggles with their biggest customers, characterized by boycotts and dramatic contractual battles. Until the fundamental structural problems in the publishing industry are fixed, there will not likely be an end to the barrage of open-access alternatives. And it may already be too late." Not that the commercial publishers are standing still, as evidenced by the announcement today that he UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee has secured agreements with seven major international publishers to provide access to eJournals for the higher and further education sector in the UK.
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