[IP-OA_Forum] [Fwd: New Paper on Society Publishing and OA (available online) - Societies ideally placed to benefit from OA in future?]

[Katja Mruck]

Liebe Kolleginnen & Kollegen,

anbei ein Hinweis auf eine neue Veroeffentlichung von Chris Armbruster 
zum Thema "Society publishing, the internet and open access".

Ihnen einen schoenen Tag,
Katja Mruck

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New Paper on Society Publishing and OA (available online) - 
Societies ideally placed to benefit from OA in future?
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:39:51 +0200
From: Armbruster, Chris <Chris.Armbruster at EUI.eu>
To: <info at openaccess-germany.de>
CC: <SSOAR at qualitative-forschung.de>

Dear Colleagues,

A new paper is available that seeks to build a (new) bridge to society 
publishers and engage them on the question of how to shape the future of 
OA. It starts from the premise that
"they stand to benefit from open access because society publishers are 
embedded within their specific community, which they serve in a number 
of ways. They are ideally placed to utilise the rise of digital peer 
production (e.g. e-Science, but also the textgrid for the humanities) 
and global epistemic networks (researchers sharing a broadly defined 
research programme and, for example, sharing pre-prints) to deliver 
value-adding services to a global audience of users. Society publishers 
may find that institutional repositories and, more generally, digital 
libraries, could become partners in publishing. If repositories and 
libraries collect, disseminate and curate the content, then society 
publishers may concentrate on providing what they do best: adding value 
through certification and navigation services."

Armbruster, Chris "Society publishing, the internet and open access: 
shifting mission-orientation from content holding to certification and 
navigation services?” (July 2007).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=997819


An earlier, award winning paper (Yale Law ISP 'Access to Knowledge' 
(2007) first prize - http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsa2k2.html)

Armbruster, Chris, "Cyberscience and the Knowledge-Based Economy, Open 
Access and Trade Publishing: from Contradiction to Compatibility with 
Nonexclusive Copyright Licensing" (October 2006).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=938119

Regards,

Chris Armbruster

http://ssrn.com/author=434782


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