SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
Université Côte D’Azur, Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG), Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
Frank Mueller-Langer
Department of Business Administration, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany
Source
Science Vol 385, Issue 6714
DOI: 10.1126/science.adp8882
From the Article
Recognizing the importance of ensuring access to taxpayer-funded scientific knowledge and underlying data, many national governments and supranational institutions have been supporting the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities as far back as 2003. More recently, they have been implementing mandates to establish open access (OA) to scientific publications and underlying data. In this work, we examine the effects of related OA mandates and agreements on scientific communication for both the broader scientific community as well as the science communication and science policy communities. We outline key contemporary unknowns and avenues for continued research. We also explore the effects of OA “big deals” (where one or more universities and a single publisher negotiate the fees for publishing in any of the latter’s journals) and the bundling of publishing and data contracts on prices and market structure.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
