Scientific Publishing
From Vanity to Strategy

Hans Roosendaal (Author), Kasia Zalewska-Kurek (Author), Peter Geurts (Author), Eberhard Hilf (Author)

9781843344902, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 20 January 2010

190 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm, 0.32 kg

Scientific Publishing addresses the issue of business models in scientific publishing and how these relate to the research process (e.g. support or inhibit this process). The researcher is taken as the starting point for the considerations to arrive at a comprehensive description of the publishing process as an integral part of the research process. The properties of different business models are tested against this description, allowing an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of these models in supporting the research process.

Business models in the research environment
Research environment
Acquisition of scientific information
The market for scientific information
Criteria for business models in scientific publishing
Scenarios for scientific publishing
Consequences for stakeholders
Summary and conclusions.

Subject Areas: Library & information sciences [GL]