Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club
© 2019 The Author(s). Learned Publishing © 2019 ALPSP. Much of the argument around reforming, remaking, or preserving the traditions of scholarly publishing is built on economic principles, explicit or implicit. Can we afford open access (OA)? How do we pay for high-quality services? Why does it cos...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Published: |
2019
|
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74475 |
| _version_ | 1848763285510291456 |
|---|---|
| author | Hartley, John Potts, J. Montgomery, Lucy Rennie, E. Neylon, Cameron |
| author_facet | Hartley, John Potts, J. Montgomery, Lucy Rennie, E. Neylon, Cameron |
| author_sort | Hartley, John |
| building | Curtin Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | © 2019 The Author(s). Learned Publishing © 2019 ALPSP. Much of the argument around reforming, remaking, or preserving the traditions of scholarly publishing is built on economic principles, explicit or implicit. Can we afford open access (OA)? How do we pay for high-quality services? Why does it cost so much? In this article, we argue that the sterility of much of this debate is a result of failure to tackle the question of what a journal is in economic terms. We offer a way through by demonstrating that a journal is a club and discuss the implications for the scholarly publishing industry. We use examples, ranging from OA to prestige journals, to explain why congestion is a problem for club-based publications, and to discuss the importance of creative destruction for the maintenance of knowledge-generating communities in publishing. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T11:01:02Z |
| format | Journal Article |
| id | curtin-20.500.11937-74475 |
| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T11:01:02Z |
| publishDate | 2019 |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-744752019-02-19T04:25:59Z Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club Hartley, John Potts, J. Montgomery, Lucy Rennie, E. Neylon, Cameron © 2019 The Author(s). Learned Publishing © 2019 ALPSP. Much of the argument around reforming, remaking, or preserving the traditions of scholarly publishing is built on economic principles, explicit or implicit. Can we afford open access (OA)? How do we pay for high-quality services? Why does it cost so much? In this article, we argue that the sterility of much of this debate is a result of failure to tackle the question of what a journal is in economic terms. We offer a way through by demonstrating that a journal is a club and discuss the implications for the scholarly publishing industry. We use examples, ranging from OA to prestige journals, to explain why congestion is a problem for club-based publications, and to discuss the importance of creative destruction for the maintenance of knowledge-generating communities in publishing. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74475 10.1002/leap.1228 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Hartley, John Potts, J. Montgomery, Lucy Rennie, E. Neylon, Cameron Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club |
| title | Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club |
| title_full | Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club |
| title_fullStr | Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club |
| title_short | Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club |
| title_sort | do we need to move from communication technology to user community? a new economic model of the journal as a club |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74475 |