From Library Journal, Cheryl LaGuardia interviews Peter Suber on open access. Jason Schmitt on Elsevier and the 25.2 billion dollar a year academic publishing business. Who pays for open access? The financial shift from subscribers to authors will have long term and potentially positive effects on peer-reviewed scientific and medical reporting. Academics want you to read their work for free: Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive — some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that. Ellen Wexler on what open-access publishing actually costs. This renowned mathematician is bent on proving academic journals can cost nothing. Laura McKenna on the convoluted profits of academic publishing: Academia.edu is changing the way research papers are being shared, but some professors worry about trusting the for-profit website. Jeffrey Beall on the growing parallel economy in scholarly publishing.
