A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing

A new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publish...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Potts, J., Hartley, John, Montgomery, Lucy, Neylon, C., Rennie, E.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59451