<div dir="ltr"><div>Buongiorno<br></div>vi segnalo questo articolo di cui Cameron neylon e' coautore:<br><h1 style="font-size:18px">A Journal is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing</h1><br><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763975">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763975</a><br><font face="Myriad Roman, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;" size="2">A new
economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing—journal publishing
in particular—is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard
approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research
scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In that model
publishing is communication, as the dissemination of information. But a
club model views publishing differently: namely as group formation,
where members form groups in order to confer externalities on each
other, subject to congestion. A journal is a self-constituted group,
endeavouring to create new knowledge. In this sense ‘a journal is a
club’. The knowledge club model of a journal seeks to balance the
positive externalities due to a shared resource (readers, citations,
referees) against negative externalities due to crowding (decreased
prospect of publishing in that journal). A new economic model of a
journal as a ‘knowledge club’ is elaborated. We suggest some
consequences for the management of journals and financial models that
might be developed to support them.</font><br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div>Cari saluti<br></div><div>eg<br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)">dr. Elena Giglia<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Responsabile Ufficio Open Access - Editoria Elettronica<br>Direzione Sviluppo Organizzativo, Innovazione e Servizi Bibliotecari<br>Universita' degli Studi di Torino<br>tel. +39.011.670<b>.4191</b></span><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><a href="http://www.oa.unito.it" target="_blank">www.oa.unito.it </a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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