Open Publishing: Working with the Commercial and Public sectors

The Internet and Open Content licensing afford many exciting opportunities to make content available for dissemination and reuse. The attempts to do so raise fundamental questions about how, when in the lifecycle, and who pays for the creation and distribution of content. Bloomsbury Academic, a new publishing initiative, , uses Creative Commons licenses for research based scholarly publications. This presentation will look at the business model and how we hope to partner with public bodies.

Key Concerns

In moving to open content licensing there are still transaction costs that keep the cost of publications high. We need to devise better, more efficient ways of publishing scholarly works. This requires more collaborative work by all stakeholders in the academic ecosystem.

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