Peak: Pricing electronic access to knowledge

Knowledge of Shahid Beheshti Dental School Faculty Members about Open Access Electronic Journals

Objectives Considering the gap of information about the perspectives of faculty members regarding the available online scientifc resources, this study aimed to assess the knowledge of Shahid Beheshti Dental School faculty members about open access (OA) electronic journals. Materials and Methods In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was used to collect information of 68 f...

Pricing access to Internet service providers

This paper studies the efficient pricing of termination services for calls that are made to Internet service providers (ISPs). A model is presented in which an incumbent phone network is obligated to provide local calls at a regulated per-minute price while entrant carriers compete to terminate ISP-bound calls. This model is used to understand the problems of regulatory arbitrage that arise whe...

A new approach to wholesale access pricing

Access to knowledge

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...

Access to knowledge

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...