Browsing by Subject "Journal Publishing"

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    Metropolitan Universities: Building an Online, Open Access Archive
    (2015-10-11) Odell, Jere D.; Polley, David E.; Pollock, Caitlin M.J.; Proctor, Anna; Sullivan, Michayla
    Metropolitan Universities (MUJ) provides peer-reviewed publishing on topics in higher education, including distributed learning, K-16 collaborations, assessment, service learning, campus-community partnerships and other subjects. In 2015 MUJ published its 25th volume. Beginning in the year 2000 (volume 11), MUJ has been published as a print journal with editorial offices at IUPUI. To celebrate more than of 25 years of successful publishing and to introduce new modes of dissemination, MUJ has developed an open access, online archive of its entire publication run. Here we describe the process of digitizing, indexing and building the MUJ archive.
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    Scholarly Societies and the Newspaper Problem
    (2018-11) Lewis, David W.
    This paper looks at the current economic model of large scholarly societies. This model relies on significant surpluses from publishing operations to fund other activities of the societies. It is argued that this economic model lacks transparency as colleges and universities supply a subsidy to the societies by overpaying for journals and indexes and that they are generally not aware that this is happening. If is further argued that as was the case with newspapers a decade ago, scholarly societies will need to reinvent their economic model. The driving force is likely to be the coming pressure to adopt an Open Access model. Plan S is the current manifestation of this pressure.