Abstract
The scholarly publication model is discussed and the impact of the current technological change on knowledge and communication generally on the scholarly publication model is set out. The proposal is made that rather than open access being the cause of the apparent and impending collapse of the scholarly publication industry, it is but one driver of a far wider change in scholarly publication. That change will have effects that extend well beyond the simple decision of whether a publication should be available by subscription or by one of the forms of open access. A number of other changes to scholarly publication are also itemized. The change is inevitable but its extent is as yet unclear.
DOI
10.17705/1CAIS.03717
Recommended Citation
Lamp, J. W. (2015). Open Access: Just One Item in a Pandora’s Box. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37, pp-pp. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.03717
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