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Chapter 50
Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
Generally peer-reviewed journals that publish original research or scholarship by the researchers or scholars who performed the research or scholarship. They originated in the 17 th century and up until about 50 years ago were largely owned and operated by scientific and scholarly societies. Since then, an increasing number is owned and operated at a profit by commercial publishers.
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The Role of Open Source Software in Open Access Publishing
David J. Solomon (Michigan State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-999-1.ch050
Abstract
This chapter discusses the rapid transition from paper to electronic distribution of scholarly journals and how this has led to open-access journals that make their content freely available over the Internet. It presents the practical and ethical arguments for providing open access to publicly funded research and scholarship and outlines a variety of economic models for operating these journals. There are hundreds of journals that are run on volunteer effort by a few people or even a single person. Journal management software that can streamline the peer-review process as well as other aspects of operating a journal can dramatically reduce the effort of operating these journals and allow them to flourish. The availability of high-quality, open source journal management software is playing an important role in facilitating the success of small volunteer-run, open-access journals.
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