SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: Removing barriers to research: An introduction to open access for librarians
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Open-access literature is online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access will solve the pricing crisis, which prevents libraries from buying access to all the literature their patrons need, and the permission crisis, which prevents libraries and their patrons from making full and legitimate use of the material for which they have paid.
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The current system of scientific publishing is contrary to the open access ethos because some commercial publishers are placing excessive price and permission barriers on research publications that are largely funded by public tax dollars and other public funds.
“The current system of scientific publishing is contrary to this ethos because some commercial publishers are placing excessive price and permission barriers on research publications that are largely funded by public tax dollars and other public funds (Suber 2003).”
From Participation in the global knowledge commons: Challenges and opportunities for research dissemination in developing countries (2005) · cites this paper as Suber 2003
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- Answering some library-specific questions and -a , http:// makeashorterlink.com/?G27212392. Reprinted in Walt Crawford's Cites a n d Insights, November, 2002, pages 12-14, http://home.att.net/ ~wcc.techx/civ2i 14.pdf.
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Chan, L., & Costa, S. (2005) · New Library World · doi:10.1108/03074800510587354 · Cited by 165 · see citing works
“The current system of scientific publishing is contrary to this ethos because some commercial publishers are placing excessive price and permission barriers on research publications that are largely funded by public tax dollars and other public funds (Suber, 2003).”
Chan, L. (2004) · Canadian Journal of Communication · doi:10.22230/cjc.2004v29n3a1455 · Cited by 167 · see citing works
- Authors
- Suber, P.
- Affiliations
- Earlham College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Suber, Peter
- ORCID
- Suber, Peter
- Venue
- College & Research Libraries News
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 2003-02-01
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 92-113
- ISSN
- 0099-0086 (ISSN-L)
- 2150-6698
- OpenAlex
- W1934378535
- Cited by
- 112
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 30.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- College & Research Libraries News (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Keywords
- open access, scholarly communication, copyright, licensing, librarians, access to literature
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