Alternative Publishing Models

Universities, publishers, professional societies and scholars are all experimenting with new forms of scholarly publishing. Alternatives to the traditional modes of scholarly communication have several advantages:

• increased access to scholarly information
• greater control of intellectual property
• create a sustainable economic environment for libraries and publishers
• retain peer review
• make research available faster than traditional publications
• may be accessed through indexes or web resources
• are usually archived

• Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication Association of Research Libraries