Taking on Commercial Scholarly Journals: Reflections on the ‘Open Access’ Movement

Wellen, Richard

doi:10.1023/b:jaet.0000039010.14325.3d

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“…Adicionalmente, podrían empeorar las posibilidades de oferta de las instituciones que aspiren a contar con investigadores de alto nivel. Las grandes universidades que posean una mayor capacidad para apoyar a sus autores, probablemente estarían en mejores posibilidades de atraer a investigadores más prometedores y productivos (Wellen, 2004).…”

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Uso ético de la información: implicaciones y desafíos

Ortega¹,

Velázquez²

2017

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Uso ético de la información: implicaciones y desafíos

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Velázquez²

2017

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“…The open access movement advocates for free, online access to peer reviewed scholarship. It is grounded in two basic arguments: (1) the Internet makes possible free and instantaneous distribution of knowledge, and so academia should avail itself of the efficiencies afforded by the network; and (2) the scholarly communication system is broken; faculty write scholarly articles for free, based on research that was often funded by taxpayers, and those articles should be freely available to the public (Wellen, ; Willinsky, ).…”

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Faculty Rights to Scholarly Research

Kleinman

2017

New Drctns Hghr Edu

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“…Thus, the subscription business model that remains dominant today rests upon a highly valued partnership of publishers with the academic commons (Wellen, 2004). Moreover, at the heart of the current scholarly communications system is a business model that has evolved over many decades in response to the idiosyncratic nature of the academic publishing market.…”

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Open Access, Megajournals, and MOOCs

Wellen

2013

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The development of “open” academic content has been strongly embraced and promoted by many advocates, analysts, stakeholders, and reformers in the sector of higher education and academic publishing. The two most well-known developments are open access scholarly publishing and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), each of which are connected to disruptive innovations enabled by new technologies. Support for these new modes of exchanging knowledge is linked to the expectation that they will promote a number of public interest benefits, including widening the impact, productivity, and format of academic work; reforming higher education and scholarly publishing markets; and relieving some of the cost pressures in academia. This article examines the rapid emergence of policy initiatives in the United Kingdom and the United States to promote open content and to bring about a new relationship between the market and the academic commons. In doing so, I examine controversial forms of academic unbundling such as open access megajournals and MOOCs and place each in the context of the heightened emphasis on productivity and impact in new regulatory regimes in the area of higher education.

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Taking on Commercial Scholarly Journals: Reflections on the ‘Open Access’ Movement

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Uso ético de la información: implicaciones y desafíos

Uso ético de la información: implicaciones y desafíos

Faculty Rights to Scholarly Research

Open Access, Megajournals, and MOOCs

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