Impact of RSS on Open-Access Journals
August 2nd, 2005Dave over at The Industrial Librarian theorizes how blogs and RSS may bring more publishers into the open-access foray:
“The increasing popularity of blogs and RSS feeds will drive an increase in open-access professional journal publishing and will force many traditional, print-based publishers to consider offering at least some form of electronic distribution. The reason being is that the online open-access model can reach a wider audience at a faster rate than traditional print publishing can – and blogs and RSS feeds enable this to happen even more…With the increasing number of blogs and people receiving information via RSS feeds, the difference in distribution speeds between print and online will become even greater.”
A bit of overgeneralizing, but definitely worth thinking about. (link via Open Access News)