crisis in scholarly communication:an economic analysis

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

As a comprehensive summary of issues, arguments and research on scholarly
journals I recommend :

John Houghton, Victoria University, Vic
The crisis in scholarly communication: an economic analysis.
Presentation at VALA (Victorian Association for Library Automation Inc).
2002 "E-volving Information Futures" Conference, Melbourne (February 2002)
The paper is available at:
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/16Houton.pdf

The conference took place a year ago, and many of the presentations, if
you have not read them are worth careful study. The full conference
program with links to presentations is at :  
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pprs/wed2002.htm

Houghton's paper is  based on an earlier work :
Houghton, J.W. (2000) Economics of Scholarly Communication: A Discussion
Paper, prepared for the Coalition for Innovation in Scholarly Communication,
Canberra available at:
http://www.anu.edu.au/caul/cisc/EconomicsScholarlyCommunication.pdf

The citation was picked up by the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography and those who attended The Fifth International Symposium on
Electronic Theses and Dissertations at BYU may also have heard Houghton.  
I couldn't find a reference to it in the liblicense archives, so thought
it was worth calling attention to it.  Chuck