Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

Sommaire :

1. Introduction
1.1. Background of the study
1.2. Goal of the study
1.3. Setting the scene: overview of the economic and policy context
2. Overview of the market for scientific publishing
2.1. Market imperfections
2.2. Market trends until the mid-1990’S
2.3. Trends since the mid-1990’S
3. Entry, prices, costs and quality
3.1. Description of the database
3.2. Descriptive statistics
3.3. Prices and quality : An econometric analysis
4. Scientific publishing in the electronic era: insights from industrial economics
4.1. Two-sided markets, network effects and business models
4.2. New technology and competition
5. Bundling strategies
5.1. Economic literature on bundling and discrimination
5.2. Big deals
6. Vat issues
6.1. Current situation in Europe
6.2. Possible solutions
7. Access to research outputs
7.1. Access issues
7.2. Development of open access archives
7.3. Open access journals
7.4. Research funding bodies’ policies changing conditions of access
7.5. Conclusions
8. Electronic journals : Permanent access and preservation
8.1. Online access to journal back issues
8.2. Long-term preservation of electronic journals
8.3. Conclusions
9. Standards and interoperability
10. Recommendations