The adoption of the 2008 U.S. National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy and the launch of successful open access journals in health sciences have done much to move the exchange of scholarship beyond the subscription-only model.

A new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of information...

This report, which examines global attitudes towards open data in 2017, includes survey results from 2,300 respondents and a collection of articles from industry experts. Its key finding is that open data has become more embedded in the research community.

This paper looks at what Research Information Management (RIM) is, what is driving RIM adoption, and the library’s role in RIM.

This study shows that although the main Open Access (OA) policies do not include monographs, conversations about OA and monographs are surfacing and are expected to be accelerating over the next few years.