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    Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club

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    Authors
    Hartley, John
    Potts, J.
    Montgomery, Lucy
    Rennie, E.
    Neylon, Cameron
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Hartley, J. and Potts, J. and Montgomery, L. and Rennie, E. and Neylon, C. 2019. Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club. Learned Publishing. 32 (1): pp. 27-35.
    Source Title
    Learned Publishing
    DOI
    10.1002/leap.1228
    ISSN
    0953-1513
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74475
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 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.

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