The effect of use and access on citations
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Infometrics
The Information Society: A Study Of Continuity And Change
The Information Society: A Study Of Continuity And Change
Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
The effect of “open access” on citation impact: An analysis of ArXiv's condensed matter section
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Information Science
Speculative originality and optimality in knowledge development infrastructures
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
On the impact of Gold Open Access journals
Scientometrics
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A review of recent developments in electronic publishing, with a focus on Open Access (OA) is provided. It describes the two main types of OA, i.e. the `gold' OA journal route and the `green' repository route, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of the two, and the reactions of the publishing industry to these developments. Quality, cost and copyright issues are explored, as well as some of the business models of OA. It is noted that whilst so far there is no evidence that a shift to OA will lead to libraries cancelling subscriptions to toll-access journals, this may happen in the future, and that despite the apparently compelling reasons for authors to move to OA, so far few have shown themselves willing to do so. Conclusions about the future of scholarly publications are drawn.