digitalculturepress, a joint initiative of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library, offers an innovative model of providing books free online, with an optional (paid) print of demand. Several of their book series – such as Technologies of the Imagination, the New Media World, and the [...]

Update April 24: I just realized that the ICA’s Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is open access (on the Wiley site). Quotable from Wolfgang Donsbach, Finance Committee Report, International Communication Association 2007 Annual Report (downloadable from the ICA website): “Publications…yield a surplus of between $500,000 – $600,000 because expenses for the editors’ offices stay far below [...]

What is open access? While there are many flavors of open access, and many related movements including open data, open education, and open government, open access refers primarily to the scholarly peer-reviewed journal literature – the works that scholars give away for free. Here is the definition of open access from the Budapest Open Access [...]