Reason, risk, and reward: Models for libraries and other stakeholders in an evolving scholarly publishing ecosystem
Abstract
Scholarly publishing, and scholarly communication more generally, are based on patterns
established over many decades and even centuries. Some of these patterns are clearly
valuable and intimately related to core values of the academy, but others were based
on the exigencies of the past, and new opportunities have brought into question whether
it makes sense to persist in supporting old models. New technologies and new publishing
models raise the question of how we should fund and operate scholarly publishing and
scholarly communication in the future, moving away from a scarcity model based on
the exchange of physical goods that restricts access to scholarly literature unless
a market-based exchange takes place. This essay describes emerging models that attempt
to shift scholarly communication to a more open-access and mission-based approach
and that try to retain control of scholarship by academics and the institutions and
scholarly societies that support them. It explores changing practices for funding
scholarly journals and changing services provided by academic libraries, changes instituted
with the end goal of providing more access to more readers, stimulating new scholarship,
and removing inefficiencies from a system ready for change. © 2014 by the American
Anthropological Association.
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10.14506/ca29.2.03Publication Info
Mangiafico, Paolo; & Smith, Kevin L (2014). Reason, risk, and reward: Models for libraries and other stakeholders in an evolving
scholarly publishing ecosystem. Cultural Anthropology, 29(2). pp. 216-235. 10.14506/ca29.2.03. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8875.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Paolo Mangiafico
Senior Manager, IT
Paolo Mangiafico is the Scholarly Communications Strategist at Duke University, and
co-director of ScholarWorks, a Center for Scholarly Publishing at Duke University
Libraries (scholarworks.duke.edu). He is also Director of the Triangle Scholarly Communication
Institute (trianglesci.org), an annual program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
that brings together leading thinkers and innovators from many dis

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