Access to Science and Scholarship Workshop: Access and Evolving Business Models Panel

How have access paradigms and evolving business models reshaped the landscape of scholarly communication? Subscription-based models are being supplanted by various open access frameworks -- how do these models affect the availability and dissemination of research, and what new models are emerging at the intersection of academic and commercial interests? Are any of these models sustainable over the long term? How does each model shift market dynamics and the balance between larger commercial publishers, research societies, and independent/university presses?

Moderator: Rachel Burley, Chief Publications Officer, American Physical Society
Panelists: Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections, Iowa State University; Penelope Lewis, Chief Publishing Officer, American Institute of Physics; Susan King, Executive Director, Rockefeller University Press; Collette Bean, Chief Publishing Officer, American Physiological Society

This solutions-focused workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation. It convenes a diverse group of experts for intensive discussion on the open questions provoked by changes in the research communications enterprise. The participants will work together to advance a research agenda that can inform the development of new policies and practices in open science communications.

This event was held on Friday, September 20th, 2024, and was hosted at the Association for the Advancement of Science headquarters in Washington, DC. The workshop was conceived and sponsored by the MIT Press and supported by funding from the National Science Foundation.