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Pressing Matters - The Rise of e-Presses
Weaver, Belinda (2003-07-01) Pressing Matters - The Rise of e-Presses. Online Currents, 18 6: 4-7.
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| Author(s) |
Weaver, Belinda
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| Title |
Pressing Matters - The Rise of e-Presses
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| Journal name |
Online Currents
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| Publication date |
2003-07-01
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| Volume number |
18
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| Issue number |
6
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| ISSN |
0816-956X
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| Start page |
4
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| End page |
7
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| Total pages |
4
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| Editor(s) |
Drynan, Elizabeth
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| Place of publication |
Lindfield, NSW
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| Publisher |
Enterprise Information Management Pty Ltd
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| Collection year |
2003
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400103 Professional Creative Writing
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289900 Other Information, Computing and Communication Sciences
700299 Information services not elsewhere classified
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| Abstract |
With the immense opportunities for dissemination of material opened up by electronic publishing, there should be no reason for anyone with online access nowadays to be locked out of the vast research output of the world's universities. Yet coming hard on the heels of the long-running 'serials pricing crisis' or 'crisis in scholarly publishing'- a worldwide crisis caused the double whammy of ever-shrinking library budgets and escalating journal prices, and worsened for Australian libraries by long-lasting poor exchange rates - comes what Peter Suber of the Free Online Scholarship Movement calls the 'permission crisis' - 'the result of raising legal and technological barriers to limit how libraries may use the journals for which they have so dearly paid'. It was these kinds of 'crises' that the e-Press, along with other initiatives such as open access repositories, preprint archives and so on, was created to solve.
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| Keyword(s) |
ePresses
scholarly publishing
electronic publishing
university presses
open access publishing
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| Additional Notes |
Reproduced with permission.
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