Open Access in the Natural and Social Sciences: The Correspondence of Innovative Moves to Enhance Access, Inclusion and Impact in Scholarly Communication

Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2008

22 Pages Posted: 18 Nov 2005 Last revised: 22 Apr 2008

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Chris Armbruster

10,000 Data Scientists for Europe

Date Written: November 15, 2005

Abstract

Online, open access is the superior model for scholarly communication. A variety of scientific communities in physics, the life sciences and economics have gone furthest in innovating their scholarly communication through open access, enhancing accessibility for scientists, students and the interested public. Open access enjoys a comparative advantage across the science and humanities and it is therefore only logical that functional innovation and structural improvements should be similar in the natural and social sciences. A variety of innovative moves in the natural and social sciences are portrayed and analysed, demonstrating correspondence of the innovative logic across the disciplines even as solutions vary.

Open access is technologically feasible and economically efficient. Moreover, open access has become vital to secure the continued advancement of knowledge. It may be expected that public and philanthropic funding will flow in the future only if public visibility and academic impact of the research results can be demonstrated.

Keywords: Social Science, Cultural Studies, Scholarly communication, electronic publishing, STM publishing, publishing

JEL Classification: D83, H41, L22, L82, O33, O34

Suggested Citation

Armbruster, Chris, Open Access in the Natural and Social Sciences: The Correspondence of Innovative Moves to Enhance Access, Inclusion and Impact in Scholarly Communication (November 15, 2005). Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=849305 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.849305

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