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dc.contributor.authorHartley, John
dc.contributor.authorPotts, J.
dc.contributor.authorMontgomery, Lucy
dc.contributor.authorRennie, E.
dc.contributor.authorNeylon, Cameron
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-19T04:17:01Z
dc.date.available2019-02-19T04:17:01Z
dc.date.created2019-02-19T03:58:17Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationHartley, 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.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74475
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/leap.1228
dc.description.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.

dc.titleDo we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume32
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage27
dcterms.source.endPage35
dcterms.source.issn0953-1513
dcterms.source.titleLearned Publishing
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI)
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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