International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
Gli editori e la via d'oro dell'accesso aperto
The last ten years have seen an intensive debate about the adoption of open access for journal publishing (and increasingly monographs as well), not only concentrating on whether but what type.
The consensus among STM publishers is that the pay-to-publish version of open access, the so-called gold route, offers the best prospect for a sustainable business model.
How this has come about and what issues have been involved in the debate will form the core of this presentation.
