Open access publishing in science

  • Authors:

  • Florian Mann;Benedikt von Walter;Thomas Hess;Rolf T. Wigand

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany;MTV Networks Germany GmbH, Berlin, Germany;Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany;Information Science and Management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Being Human in the Digital Age
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

While the evolving information society is freely opening and sharing its diaries, social networks and source codes, it remains to be seen if the same will come true for scientific knowledge. Despite strong sympathy for the idea, scientists balk at Open Access publishing. Here we shed some light on why this is so.