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The Social Economy of Open Access
2013 Conference Track
Scholarly Communication
Keywords
Open Access, Social Economy
Learning Objectives
Understand the Primary Models of Open Access: Institutional Repository Requirments, Green & Gold Open Access Publishing, Public Access Mandates, etc.
Know how Open Access relates to social economics and non-market systems of distribution from an economic anthropological perspective
Abstract
This presentation examines open access publishing as an emerging social economy, highlighting the social values of reciprocity shared among individual scholars and institutions. Green and Gold open access publishing, institutional repository requirements, and government mandated public access are presented as nascent social economic responses to an inefficient market economy.