Study on Developments of Open Access Movement Based on General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movement

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26330364
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: MINE Shinji 三重大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (80468529)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: オープンアクセス / 学術情報流通 / 学術コミュニケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study finds that Open Access movement originally emerged from 1) Increase in subscription price, 2) digitization of scholarly information and 3) Initiatives of scientific community. However, over the past 20 years, we can see that 1) governments and publishers have taken the place of researchers and libraries, 2) the roles and places of institutional repository has been smaller and 3) the strategic position against the commercial publishers has also been weakened.

Free Research Field

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