Ah, yes, and if you'll remember our prior discussion about
open
access, Stevan, I warned that just this "success"
might be the
"tipping point" to drive a host of commercial and
society
publishers out of the business of journal publishing. One
"tipping point" causes another? Witness, as
partial proof, the
reaction of STM publishers represented by the PRISM
initiative. I
read that as a warning that, if the government forces a
change in
their business model, they may just walk away from the
business.
I assume you wouldn't consider that a bad thing at all, but
my
question would be what kind of structure will take its place
and
what expectations will universities have of their presses to
pick
up the slack?
Sandy Thatcher
Penn State Press
> Thomas, Chuck & McDonald, Robert H. (2007)
> Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in
Digital
> Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part
1.
> D-lib Magazine 13 (9/10)
> http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcd
onald.html
> doi:10.1045/september2007-mcdonald
>
> EXCERPT: "As for mandatory-deposit
repositories, the limited
> available data indicate authors represented in
such repositories
> tend to contribute more of their intellectual
output. Sale (2006)
> predicted institutions establishing deposit
mandates were likely
> to see such results within three years of
implementing these
> policies... This study's findings only reinforce
such predictions
> and arguments favoring institutional mandates. As
the data in this
> article show, a mandate is arguably the
"tipping point" described by
> Gladwell (2000) that can make depositing behavior
among scholars not
> just widespread, but also more of an ingrained and
complete behavior."
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