By National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing Committee on Electronic Scientific

This file is the lawsuits of a 2003 symposium on "Electronic clinical, Technical, and scientific magazine Publishing and Its Implications," which introduced jointly specialists in STM publishing, either manufacturers and clients of those courses, to: (1) determine the new technical alterations in publishing, and different elements, that impression the selections of magazine publishers to supply journals electronically; (2) determine the wishes of the medical, engineering, and scientific group as clients of journals, no matter if digital or published; (3) speak about the responses of not-for-profit and advertisement STM publishers and of alternative stakeholders within the STM group to the possibilities and demanding situations posed by means of the shift to digital publishing; and (4) learn the spectrum of proposals that has been placed forth to answer the wishes of clients because the publishing shifts to digital info creation and dissemination.

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Reed Elsevier has begun an innovative project with the Royal Library in the Netherlands, where they are looking at how to address those kinds of long-term preservation problems. The solutions will be costly, and the costs will need to be shared between publishers and libraries, ideally with support from governments and other institutions. The PLoS definition of open access includes the immediate deposition of the publication with some organization that is committed to long-term access. There is no certainty, however, that organizations will actually follow through on this commitment.

Authors or publishers achieve open access by making a complete version of the article and all supplemental materials available in some suitable standard electronic format, deposited immediately upon publication in at least one internationally recognized, independent online repository 30 ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING that is committed to open access. One well-known example of such an open access archive is PubMed Central, maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Advantages of the Open-Access Approach for Science The practical advantages of true open access are already very familiar to many researchers in the life sciences through two longstanding, amazingly successful open-access experiments—GenBank and the Protein Data Bank.

BUSINESS MODELS AND REVENUE 23 ceived to be slower to respond to technological capabilities and to be less competitive, though they often have substantial goodwill in the marketplace. There are many prospective targets among the small university presses and learned societies. Creation of Meta-Content Metadata are often defined as “content about content,” and they can be exploited or created as bibliographies, indexes, and, most important of all, through search engines. Publishers are keenly aware of open-access publications and are looking for ways to make money from them.

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