Talk on the economics of sustainability models for scholarly communication given at ScienceEurope/LIBER workshop in Antwerp on 27 April 2017. Focuses on very fundamental issues of what happens in economic terms with scholarly communication and how cultural institutuions as well as formal institutions play a key role in supporting groups, clubs in economic terms, that take knowledge and covert to being more public like.
1. Interpreting the Shadows on
the Elephant in the Room
Why Economic Arguments Fail to Explain Scholarly Communications
@cameronneylon
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X
Slides:
8. From
Hand
Shadows:
the
Complete
Art
of
Shadowgraphy(1913)
Louis
Nikola
Public
Domain
Asserted
9.
10. He who receives an idea from me, receives
instruction himself without lessening
mine; as he who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson
18. • Collective (Public-Like) Goods are
difficult for large groups to
provision
• Small groups can work together
• Large groups will fail except under
specific circumstances
19.
20. Institutions are the the
prescriptions that humans
use to organize all forms of
repetitive and structured
interactions
Ostrom – Governing the Commons
31. So what does any of this have to do
with economics of publishing…?
32. Ted
Bergstrom,
photo
of
slide
from
Watching
Your
Cards
in
the
Big
DealScience
Europe
Meeting
on
Business
Models
in
Scholarly
Publishing,
Fair
use
asserted