Published In
Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Document Type
Pre-Print
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Subjects
Scholarly publishing
Abstract
Organizing scholarly publishing as a cooperative business has the promise of making journals more affordable and scholarly publishing more sustainable. The authors describe the development of the modern cooperative from its beginnings in England during the Industrial Revolution and highlight the great extent and diversity of business worldwide that is currently done cooperatively. Some of the current initiatives in scholarly publishing (SPARC, PLoS, German Academic Publishing, etc.) are analysed in light of cooperative business principles, and it is shown that, while these models often partially utilize cooperative business practices, none of them has adopted the cooperative model in totality.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8453
Citation Details
Schroeder, Robert and Siegel, Gretta E., "A Cooperative Publishing Model for Sustainable Scholarship" (2006). Library Faculty Publications and Presentations. 66.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/8453
Description
This is the author's preprint version of the article. The published article is copyrighted by University of Toronto Press and can be found at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_scholarly_publishing/summary/v037/37.2schroeder.html