Confirming Suspicions: An Analysis of Original Communication Studies Journal Price Data

Romero, Lisa

doi:10.1080/01462670802045525

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“…For decades academic librarians have been discussing the unsustainability of the for-profit scholarly publishing business model (Petersen, 1990;Falk, 2004;Romero, 2008;Baveye, 2010). They have also been studying and issuing warnings of being overcharged by forprofit scholarly publishers (White, 1976;Schlimgen & Kronenfeld, 2004;Liu, 2011;Liu & Gee, 2017;Shu et al, 2018).…”

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The Factors Significant to the Introduction of Institutional Open Access Policies: Two Case Studies of R-1 Universities

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION US universities are increasingly unable to afford research journal subscriptions due to the rising prices charged by for-profit academic publishers. Open access (OA) appears to be the most backed option to disrupt the current publishing model. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors significant to the introduction of institutional OA policies at selected United States R-1 universities. METHODS An indepth qualitative study, including interviews with stakeholders, was conducted on two R-1universities with OA policies that have been implemented for at least five years. RESULTS The results of this study reveal that while the perceived sustainability of the scholarly communication business model was an initial driver, open dissemination of knowledge was the primary factor for the development of institutional policies. DISCUSSION Open dissemination of knowledge aligns with the mission of both institutions. Interviewees believe that a wider and more open dissemination of the institution's research cost could positively affect their faculty's research impact, which could then affect the institution's reputation, rankings, classifications and funding. CONCLUSION While the initial driver for exploring OA scholarly communication for both institutions was the perceived unsustainability of the scholarly communication model, the most important factor that led to the creation of their policies was the desire to disseminate the faculty's scholarship.

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The Factors Significant to the Introduction of Institutional Open Access Policies: Two Case Studies of R-1 Universities

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…Romero showed that subscription prices of communication studies journals outpaced all other U.S. journals between 1994 and 2004, tripling during the period. 74 Data like these, she noted, are needed to leverage negotiations with journal publishers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Looking Back, Moving Forward in the Digital Age

Bullis¹,

Smith²

2011

Library Resources &Amp; Technical Services

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“…Although this represents a billion dollar increase from six years earlier (Kyrillidou & Young, 2006), the portion of those funds that are spent on library materials is increasing to nearly half of all expenditures. Academic libraries receive more money, but a greater percentage is committed to materials (Bosch & Henderson, 2012;Budd, 2002;McGuigan & Russell, 2008;Romero, 2008).…”

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Academic Libraries and Open Access Strategies

Burns¹

Advances in Library Administration and Organization

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Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits you. ABSTRACTWith the rise of alternate discovery services, such as Google Scholar, in conjunction with the increase in open access content, researchers have the option to bypass academic libraries when they search for and retrieve scholarly information. This state of affairs implies that academic libraries exist in competition with these alternate services and with the patrons who use them, and as a result, may be disintermediated from the scholarly information seeking and retrieval process. Drawing from decision and game theory, bounded rationality, information seeking theory, citation theory, and social computing theory, this study investigates how academic librarians are responding as competitors to changing scholarly information seeking and collecting practices. Bibliographic data was collected in 2010 from a systematic random sample of references on CiteULike.org and analyzed with three years of bibliometric data collected from Google Scholar. Findings suggest that although scholars may choose to bypass libraries when they seek scholarly information, academic libraries continue to provide a majority of scholarly documentation needs through open access and institutional repositories. Overall, the results indicate that academic librarians are playing the scholarly communication game competitively.

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Confirming Suspicions: An Analysis of Original Communication Studies Journal Price Data

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

The Factors Significant to the Introduction of Institutional Open Access Policies: Two Case Studies of R-1 Universities

The Factors Significant to the Introduction of Institutional Open Access Policies: Two Case Studies of R-1 Universities

Looking Back, Moving Forward in the Digital Age

Academic Libraries and Open Access Strategies

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