creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
type: journalp
datestamp: 2001-07-18
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:45
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title: The Paper House of Cards (and why it's taking so long to collapse)
ispublished: pub
subjects: archives
subjects: economics
subjects: peer-review
full_text_status: public
keywords: esoteric publishing, electronic journals,  electronic preprint archives,  peer review,
abstract: The remaining cost of serial publication, once expenses are scaled down to the
                           electronic-only level, is low enough to render the interests of everyone -- the
                           author, the reader, the funder of the author's research, the university supporting the
                           author, and, yes, the electronic learned serial publishers -- better served by
                           recovering those costs and a fair profit at the author's end, in the form of page
                           charges (paid for by the funders of the author's research and/or the university
                           employing him to do the research, both co-beneficiaries, with the author, of the
                           widest possible unimpeded distribution of the research reported), rather than by any
                           version of reader-end payment, the latter depending as it does, on restricting
                           access to what the author and his supporters would all prefer to see as free for all.
date: 1997
date_type: published
publication: Ariadne
volume: 8
pagerange: 6-7
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (1997) The Paper House of Cards (and why it's taking so long to collapse).  [Journal (Paginated)]     
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