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Item The First Book Project: A Disruptive Process for Creating Scholarly Monographs in the Social Sciences and Humanities(2006-01-26T14:09:20Z) Lewis, David W.This proposal applies the work of Clayton Christensen and his colleagues to the problem of creating scholarly monographs in the social sciences and humanities. An alternative model for creating first scholarly books is proposed.Item The First Step Towards a System of Open Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure(2018-12-11) Lewis, David W.; Roy, Mike; Skinner, KatherineWe are working on a project to map the infrastructure required to support digital scholarly communications. This project is an outgrowth of David W. Lewis’ “2.5% Commitment” proposal. Even in the early stages of this effort we have had to confront several uncomfortable truths.Item How Scholarly Societies Solved Their Collective Action Problem(2019-05) Lewis, David W.Like all organizations, scholarly societies, face a collective action problem. As defined by Mancur Olson, the collective action problem is that individuals are not general prepared to fund initiatives that further their collective interest. This paper explores the collective action problem faced by scholarly societies and how they solved it by generating significant surpluses from their publishing programs. It is argued that this solution will not survive the shift to open access publishing models, especially in light of Plan S.Item Impact of COVID-19 on IUPUI Authors from March - August 2020(2020-12-10) Odell, Jere D.This brief analysis seeks to measure the impact of the pandemic on scholarly article production on one university campus, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). To create an early measure of the impact of COVID-19 on IUPUI authors, I compare article production across two six-month periods, March - August 2019 and March - August 2020.Item An Introduction to Preprints for the IU School of Nursing(2021-04-22) Odell, Jere D.; Pike, CaitlinItem Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll?(2019-08) Lewis, David W.This article uses Alan B. Krueger’s analysis of the music industry in his book Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life as a lens to consider the structure of scholarly publishing and what could happen to scholarly publishing going forward. Both the music industry and scholarly publishing are facing disruption as their products become digital. Digital content provides opportunities to a create a better product at lower prices and in the music industry this has happened. Scholarly publishing has not yet done so. Similarities and differences between the music industry and scholarly publishing will be considered. Like music, scholarly publishing appears to be a superstar industry. Both music and scholarly publishing are subject to piracy, which threatens revenue, though Napster was a greater disrupter than Sci-Hub seems to be. It also appears that for a variety of reasons market forces are not effective in driving changes in business models and practices in scholarly publishing, at least not at the rate we would expect given the changes in technology. After reviewing similarities and differences, the prospects for the future of scholarly publishing will be considered.Item Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll?(2020-11-09) Lewis, David W.This article uses Alan B. Krueger’s analysis of the music industry in his book Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life as a lens to consider the structure of scholarly publishing and what could happen to scholarly publishing going forward. Both the music industry and scholarly publishing are facing disruption as their products become digital. Digital content provides opportunities to a create a better product at lower prices and in the music industry this has happened. Scholarly publishing has not yet done so. Similarities and differences between the music industry and scholarly publishing will be considered. Like music, scholarly publishing appears to be a superstar industry. Both music and scholarly publishing are subject to piracy, which threatens revenue, though Napster was a greater disrupter than Sci-Hub seems to be. It also appears that for a variety of reasons market forces are not effective in driving changes in business models and practices in scholarly publishing, at least not at the rate we would expect given the changes in technology. After reviewing similarities and differences, the prospects for the future of scholarly publishing will be considered.Item IUPUI Open Access Publishing Fund Report: July 2013-June 2015(IUPUI University Library, 2016-06-24) Center for Digital ScholarshipItem IUPUI Open Access Publishing Fund, July 2013 – December 2014: Annual Report(IUPUI University Library, 2017-02-16) Center for Digital ScholarshipItem IUPUI Open Access Publishing Fund: 2015 Annual Report(IUPUI University Library, 2017-02-17) Center for Digital Scholarship