Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications Report of a Symposium (2004) / Chapter Skim
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7 Symposium Wrap-Up
7 Symposium Wrap-Up
Pages 67-72
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Recent mergers and acquisitions within the STM journal market have heightened smaller publishers' concerns about their longer term viability as independent entities. Most of the broad range of online business models are still quite experimental and seem likely to diversify and hybridize over time as the publishing system develops and new advances emerge.
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Increased online access results in increased usage of information. Speakers talked about the likelihood of publishing becoming a more disaggregated process with separate pieces of the continuum done by different groups -- from content creation through dissemination.
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The experience in subscription-based journal publishing over the past 15-20 years has demonstrated that among the features of high-priced journals is a form of quality control. When university libraries cut their budgets for serials acquisition and reduce the 2 Malcolm Beasley, Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University.
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At least three different kinds of information were discussed at this symposium. At one end, there is the timeliest of information services, providing the linked news from the research front as rapidly as possible with little consideration for archiving or price, but simply getting the most recent results disseminated as fast as possible so that science can progress.
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The universities provide access to information at a cost that seems to them to be reasonable, as a percentage of their overall annual operating budget, and they delegate that responsibility to their research libraries. Not everyone in research libraries believes that the subscription model as a way of acquiring information is fundamentally broken.
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Any legal regime that varies by circumstance is not a particularly useful one for the users. It seems clear that intellectual property law that is designed to meet the needs of the entertainment industry and the international publishing conglomerates is not particularly conducive to facilitating the needs of the academic community.
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