From: Kim Beadle <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:16:54 +0100
PEER Economics Research: Final Report now available at
http://www.peerproject.eu/reports/
The PEER Economics Research Team headed by Professor Paola Dubini, ASK
Research Center, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy has completed the
economics research commissioned by PEER.
PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) is
investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of
authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access
or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and
journals, as well as on the broader ecology of European research.
The PEER Economics Research Team addressed this issue from an economic
perspective and investigated the effect of large-scale deposit on
scholarly research publication and dissemination (sharing of research
outputs) beginning with the analysis of publishers and institutions
managing repositories and their sustainability.
In contrast to most of the existing literature, this study associates
costs with specific activities performed by key actors involved in
research registration, certification, dissemination and digital
management and analyses actual cost structures of individual
organizations.
The resulting report presents a number of important findings and
observations including:
* providing a comparison of cost structures for publishers and repositories
* identifing 'make or buy' decisions available to publishers and
repositories and how these affect cost structures
* describing how the ecology of scholarly publishing exhibits
characteristics of multi-sided market competition in which
sustainability and competition for resources and reputation affects
open access journals, repositories and subscription based publishers.
For enquiries relating to Economics Research or other research areas
within PEER, please contact Chris Armbruster:
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For other enquiries relating to PEER, please e-mail: [log in to unmask]
About PEER:
PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by
the EC eContentplus programme, is investigating the effects of the
large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed
manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output)
on reader access, author visibility, and journal viability, as well as
on the broader ecology of European research. The project is a
collaboration between publishers, repositories and researchers and
runs from September 2008 to May 2012.
For further information on PEER, visit the website: http://www.peerproject.eu/
PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and
Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen
State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, Inria, SURF
Foundation and University of Bielefeld
STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge
University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature
Publishing Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage
Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell
PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library
(MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.
(MPG); HAL, CNRS & Institut national de recherche en informatique et
en automatique (Inria); Göttingen University/ Göttingen State and
University Library (UGOE); SSOAR - Social Sciences Open Access
repository (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); TARA -
Trinity College Dublin (TCD); University Library of Debrecen (ULD)
Long term preservation archive: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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