"Innovation and Open Access in Scholarly Journal Publishing" by Jason Baird Jackson. Presented at the AcademiX 2010 Conference sponsored by Apple and MacLearning.org. Northwestern University, May 14, 2010.

1.  AcademiX 2010
Innovation and
Open Access in
Scholarly Journal
Publishing
May 14, 2010

2. Where I am I coming
from?

6. What is open access in the
domain of scholarly publishing?

7. Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge,
and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What
makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the
author or copyright-holder.
In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, who can therefore
consent to OA without losing revenue. In this respect scholars and scientists
are very differently situated from most musicians and movie-makers, and
controversies about OA to music and movies do not carry over to research
literature.
OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for
scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of
journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees
participating in peer review.
OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce
than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly
literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the
bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for
paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.
Peter Suber, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm, accessed October 21, 2009

8. What are the
existing varieties
of open access
scholarly
publishing?

11. How does open access
scholarly publishing impact
students?

12. How does open access
scholarly publishing impact
other kinds of communities?

13. Be open or be obscure.
Be open or be self-defeating.
Version 1: Hindering one’s research career
Version 2: Alienation (in both legal and
Marxian economic sense)
Version 3: Toll access is wasteful and
destructive to necessary institutions
Be open or be unhelpful to those in need.
Be open or never get mined, remixed, or
mashed up.
Be open or never get preserved for the long
haul.

14. Some Emergent
Innovations

15. New Opportunities
and New Genres

19. The race to open
legacy journal
content

21. Toward a (even)
more curatorial
model of scholarly
editing

23. So what’s the
holdup?
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24. Thank you.

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