Of budgets and boycotts: the battle over open access publishing

Abstract

This article recounts the history of electronic journals, and the evolution of library processes to manage them. The article reviews recent controversies regarding the future of electronic publishing, and describes one important and innovative electronic publisher, the Public Library of Science.

Citation

Medeiros, N. (2004), "Of budgets and boycotts: the battle over open access publishing", OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 7-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750410527278