CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY’S REPORT ON OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
Report of the CUL Task Force on Open Access Publishing Presented to the Cornell University Library Management Team:
http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.lib/2004-3
“While the traditional subscription model has certainly been abused by some publishing interests, our Task Force is convinced that subscription can still serve as an equitable model for disseminating scholarship under some circumstances, particularly when administered by scholarly societies, university presses, and academic libraries. We have concluded that the Open Access and subscription models can coexist and are in fact likely to do so for the foreseeable future.”
ABSTRACT: The Task Force on Open Access Publishing was convened by Ross Atkinson in January 2004. The purpose of the Task Force is to study the information available on Open Access publishing and to provide the Cornell University Library Management Team with a report that addressed specific questions. Alternative publishing models that would offer free and unimpeded access to scholarship promise both a more affordable system for academic institutions and their libraries and a more democratic one for readers and authors. The present Report examines both aspects of the Open Access promise and offers recommendations for CUL’s involvement in the arena of Open Access publishing.
