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Scholarly journal publishing in transition- from restricted to open access

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Björk, Bo Christer
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	While the business models used in most segments of the media industry have been profoundly changed by the Internet, surprisingly little has changed in the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals. Electronic delivery has become the norm, but the same publishers as before are still dominating the market, selling content to subscribers. This article asks the question why Open Access (OA) to the output of mainly publicly funded research hasn’t yet become the mainstream business model. OA implies a reversal of the revenue logic from readers paying for content to authors paying for dissemination in form of universal free access. The current situation is analyzed using Porter’s five forces model. The analysis demonstrates a lack of competitive pressure in this industry, leading to so high profit levels of the leading publishers that they have not yet felt a strong need to change the way they operate. OA funded by article publishing charges (APCs) might nevertheless start rapidly becoming more common. The driving forces of change currently consist of the public research funders and administrations in Europe, which are pushing for OA by starting dedicated funds for paying the APCs of authors from the respective countries. This has in turn lead to a situation in which publishers have introduced “big deals” involving the bundling of (a) subscription to all their journals, (b) APCs for their hybrid journals and (c) in the future also APCs to their full OA journals. This appears to be a relatively risk free strategy for the leading publishers to retain both their dominance of the market and high profit levels.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	109
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10196781
Journal	Electronic Markets
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	14228890
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2017-02-19
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Scholarly publishing Business model Open access IT in Business e-Commerce/e-business
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Management of Technology and Innovation Computer Science Applications Marketing

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