Are you are a scholar involved in small not-for-profit open access publishing (from one to three journals, occasional conference proceedings, or small-scale monograph publishing)? Or, would your small not-for-profit publishing operation like to switch to open access if the economic logistics can be worked out? If so, you are invited to participate in an interview (half hour to an hour) designed to further flesh out the resource requirements needed to sustain this kind of open access publishing.
Results
of these interviews will form the basis for further research, including case
studies and focus groups, in preparation for a larger project on the economics
of global transition to open access. It is anticipated that results of this
study will be useful in the development of business practices for open access
publishing, and inform open access policy. Participants can choose whether
their contributions will be anonymous and confidential or open and
acknowledged.
To
volunteer or for further information, please contact Heather Morrison re: study
title: resource requirements for small scholar-led not-for-profit open access
Best,
Dr.
Heather Morrison
Assistant
Professor
École
des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University
of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Heather dot Morrison at uottawa dot ca
