I stumbled across the question of publisher size while preparing for an earlier article. From the viewpoint of an economist, the size distribution of open access publishers looked inefficient. In this article I first explore reasons to be sceptical to a situation with a large number of small publishers. Then I go through the numbers from the directory of Open Access Journals, also discussing problems ...

In a number of articles or books, advertising is pointed to as a possible way of financing open access (OA) journals. Very little work seems to have been done on finding out how advertising actually functions as a source of financing for OA journals. A survey was carried out to explore the field, both why journals did not employ advertising, and how advertising was employed. The findings show little ...

Open Access entails making an academic text freely available online, including allowing the user most forms of reuse and further distribution. Sometimes all forms of use are permitted, other times only noncommercial use is permitted. Copyright laws were established to protect the interests of the creator. In traditional academic publication, copyrights are used to protect the interests of the ...