Open AccessThe role of the HE institutions in scholarly publishing and communication
Author(s) -
Stuart M. Shieber
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
septentrio conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2387-3086
DOI - 10.7557/5.3671
Subject(s) - scholarship , scholarly communication , presentation (obstetrics) , payment , publishing , public relations , computer science , business , internet privacy , world wide web , political science , law , medicine , radiology
See video of the presentation.Institutions of higher education are in a double bind with respect to scholarly communication: On the one hand, they need to support the research needs of their students and researchers by providing access to the journals that comprise the archival record of scholarship. Doing so requires payment of substantial subscription fees. On the other hand, they need to provide the widest possible dissemination of works by those same researchers -- the fruits of that very research -- which itself incurs costs. I address how these two goals, each of which demands outlays of substantial funds, can best be honored. In the course of the discussion, I provide a first look at some new results on predicting journal usage, which allows for optimizing subscriptions.