http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/10/04/scholarly-open-access-publishing-and-the-future-of-academic-library-acquisition-departments/ Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing Sat, 18 May 2013 09:58:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/10/04/scholarly-open-access-publishing-and-the-future-of-academic-library-acquisition-departments/#comment-2485 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:25:50 +0000 http://scholarlyoa.com/?p=765#comment-2485 When you look at what “university presses are closing down,” you will realize that they are almost without exception among the smallest presses like SMU and Rice. Efforts to close medium-size presses like LSU and Missouri have so far been unsuccessful, and no large press has yet been threatened with closure. Thus it is very unlikely that the output of university presses overall will change much anytime soon. As for open-access ebooks, they yet constitute a very tiny minority of books published by university presses, and the vast majority of those are backlist rather than frontlist titles. The new trend is for university presses to offer their ebooks through aggregations like Project Muse and JSTOR, which are subscription-based products. I would venture to say that it will be a very long time before open access makes much of a dent in the publication of scholarly monographs.

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