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Economic and Social Impacts of Open
Access (Easi-OA)
A research program to support the integration of
existing work and provide a coordinating focus for new research on the
economic and social impacts of open access.
The Easi-OA research program emerged from a meeting held in New York in
March 2006, which was convened by SPARC Europe with the support of the
Open Society Institute. The research program will explore the costs and
benefits of various scholarly communication models, and examine the
distribution of those costs and benefits throughout the scholarly
communication system. The core focus will be on exploring and measuring
the impacts of open access.
The program is inclusive, bringing together detailed 'bottom-up' work
on scoping the entire scholarly communication system, 'top-down' work
on broad economic impacts, and a range of work on 'vertical slices'
that explores the specific impacts in particular disciplines or fields
of research, industries and countries.
A report from the New York
meeting and detailed program outline are available:
Easi-OA
Program Outline
Report
from the New York Meeting
Supporting documents:
Economic
Impacts of Enhanced Access to Research Findings (Houghton & Sheehan)
Research
Communication Costs in Australia, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits
(Houghton, Steele & Sheehan)
Discussion
of
a "Bottom-up" Approach to Examining Economic Impacts of Open Access
(King)
Research reports:
Report to the
Australian Department of Education, Science and Training, Canberra
(September 2006)
Research
Communication Costs in Australia, Emerging Opportunities and Benefits
(Houghton, Steele & Sheehan)
Contacts
John Houghton
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University
Phone: +61 (0) 2 6282 1981 Mobile: +61 (0) 409 239 109
E-mail: john.houghton@pobox.com
Web: www.cfses.com
David Prosser
Director, SPARC Europe
E-mail:
david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1865 277 614 Mobile: +44 (0) 7974 673 888
Web: www.sparceurope.org
Compiled by John Houghton (January 2007)
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