Green, T. (Corresponding author)

2017
De Gruyter Saur Berlin
ISBN: 978-3-11-049406-8, 9783110492033, 9783110494068 (electronic), 9783110491593 (electronic)

Abstract: Change to 100 % Open Access has been slow. Boselli and Galindo-Rueda found thatapproximately 50–55 % of documents are openly available 3–4 years after publication(Boselli and Galindo-Rueda, 2016) although an industry report estimated that onlyabout a third of all research articles published today are Open Access once embargoperiods are completed (SIMBA 2016). For books, the adoption of Open Access hasbeen snail-like. Searching the Directory of Open Access Books1 shows that just 370new titles were added 2015. Considering that Springer2 alone publishes upwards of4,000 new books annually it is probably fair to say that less than 5 % of all new scholarlybooks published in 2016 will be freely accessible online.All stakeholders – yes, including publishers3 – agree that open access is a worthwhileobjective. Yet, despite willing stakeholders and a plethora of funder and institutionalmandates,4 the disappointing progress to 100 % Open Access suggests thatthe current models, like Green and Gold, cannot overcome what must be significantsystemic friction in the scholarly communication process. If Green, Gold and othermodels (like Knowledge Unlatched for books, see chapter 2e) are not delivering resultsfast enough, is there another open access model that could overcome the systemicfrictions more easily? Might this model be Freemium Open Access?

Keyword(s): Open Access ; Wissenschaftskommunikation ; Open Access ; Bibliothek

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