Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index.
Contents
Overview of scholarly communication -- What is open access? -- Open access : a symptom and a promise -- Economic costs of toll access -- The impact loss to authors and research -- The technology of open access -- The culture of open access : researchers' views and responses -- Opening access by overcoming Zeno's paralysis -- Researchers and institutional repositories -- Open access to the research literature : a funder's perspective -- Open access in the USA -- Business models in open access publishing -- Learned society business models and open access -- Open all hours? : institutional models for open access -- DARE also means dare : institutional repository status in the Netherlands as of early 2006 -- Open computation : beyond human reader-centric views of scholarly literatures -- The open research web.
