Is free inevitable in scholarly communication?: The economics of open access

Open Access: the new frontier connecting the learning commons through hassle-free and seamless scholarly communication

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...

Open Access: How Is Scholarly Information Service System Going?

Open access movement has resulted in a change of the entire scholarly communication environment. Scholarly information service system (SISS) had a significant change which is represented in the emergency of various open access publishing mode and diversification of integrated valueadded service providers. This paper analyzed this change, and discussed how academic library should react to the ch...

Open access, a revolution in scholarly publishing

I would like to thank Robert Ferguson, MD and the Editorial Team of the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives (JCHIMP) for the opportunity to write this commentary and congratulate them on the launch of the Journal which will serve as a valuable resource for physicians and other health professionals practicing in community settings. I am also very appreciative of their de...

Reforming scholarly publishing and knowledge communication: From the advent of the scholarly journal to the challenges of Open Access

Purpose – This paper provides an overview of the continuous evolution of scholarly publishing and knowledge communication as a result of the Internet revolution. Design/Methodology/approach – Information was obtained from a literature review to find the main contributions on “self-archiving” – the broad term often applied to electronic publishing of author supplied documents on the WWW without ...