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Peer Review (Sense About Science, 2009, preliminary findings)
Report of Nature's peer review trial (Philip Campbell et al, 2006, Nature Peer-to-peer blog)

Authors and Readers

Overcoming barriers: access to research information content (RIN, 2009)
Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in life sciences (RIN/British Library, 2009)
Strategic Reading, Ontologies and the Future of Scientific Publishing (A Renear & C Palmer, 2009, Science 325, 828)
Communicating Knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings (Research Information Network, 2009)
Research Information Centre (Microsoft/British Library project)
Clickstream data yields high-resolution maps of science (Johan Bollen et al, PLos One, 4: e4803, 2009)
Scholarly journal information-seeking and reading patterns of faculty at five US universities (Donald King, Carol Tenopir, Songphan Choemprayong & Lei Wu, Learned Publishing 22: 126-44, April 2009)
Copycats? Digital consumers in the online age (CIBER, Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy, 2009)
How readers navigate to scholarly content (Simon Inger & Tracy Gardner, 2008)
The Future of Research (Carole Goble, 2008, British Library presentation)
Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship (James A Evans, Science, 321:395-9, 2008)
Information behaviour of the researcher of the future (CIBER for JISC, 2008)
How readers navigate to scholarly content (Simon Inger & Tracy Gardner, Simon Inger Consulting, 2008)
Are E-journals good for science? (Carol Tenopir, Library Journal, 18, 1 Nov 2008)
Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns
( Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King, D-Lib Magazine, Oct/Nov 2008)
The State of Scholarly Communications: an environmental scan of emerging issues, pitfalls and possibilities (L C Van Orsdel, 2007, The Serials Librarian 52: 191-209)
Ithaka's 2006 librarian and faculty studies (Odyssey, 2007)
Researchers' use of Academic Libraries and their Services (Research Information Network, 2007)
A survey on the use of different forms of scholarly output (Sally Maynard, JISC, 2007)
JISC summary of Scholarly Communications Survey findings (JISC, 2007)
Author's version vs. publisher's version: an analysis of the copy-editing function (Edward Wates & Robert Campbell, Learned Publishing 20/2, 2007)
Measuring Total Reading of Journal Articles (D King, C Tenopir & M Clarke, 2006, D-Lib Magazine 12(10))
Researchers and Discovery Services: behaviour, perceptions and needs (Research Information Network, 2006)
Disciplinary Differences and Needs (Rightscom, JISC 2005)
Analysis of NESLi2 Usage Statistics (Angela Conyers & Pete Dalton, JISC 2005)
New Journal Publishing Models: an international survey of senior researchers (Ian Rowlands and Dave Nicholas, 2005)
Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment: What do authors want? Findings of an international survey of author opinion (Ian Rowlands, Dave Nicholas and Paul Huntingdon, 2004)
Dr Jekyll and Dr Hyde: author-reader asymmetries in scholarly publishing (Michael Mabe & Mayur Amin, 2002, Aslib Proceedings: new information perspectives 54: 149-57)
Authors and Electronic Publishing: The ALPSP research study on authors' and readers' views of electronic research communication (Key Perspectives Ltd, ALPSP 2002)
JUSTEIS project (JISC Usage Surveys: trends in electronic information services)

Libraries

The Economic Downturn and Libraries: a global survey of the world's libraries in challenging times (CIBER, December 2009)
Librarians' purchasing intentions for 2010 (ALPSP, 2009)
ALPSP survey of librarians on factors in journal cancellation (Mark Ware, ALPSP 2006)
Annual Library Statistics, 2006 (LISU, 2006)
Open archives and their impact on journal cancellations (Mark Ware, 2006, Learned Publishing 19:226-9)
ARL Statistics

Publishing Economics

Humanities and Social Science Journals Cost Much More to Publish Than Science Periodicals (Mary Waltham for National Humanities Alliance, August 2009)
Pricing and other means of charging for scholarly journals: a literature review and commentary (Donald W King & Frances M Alvarado-Albertorio, 2008, Learned Publishing 21: 248-72)
Surveys of the financial contribution of bioscience societies to UK universities and of researchers' attitudes to Open Access and self-archiving (Morris Associates, Biosciences Federation, 2008)
Journal Prices Revisited: A Regression Analysis of Prices in the Scholarly Journal Market (Björn Ortelbach, Sebastian Schulb, and Svenja Hagenhoff, Serials Review 34/3 , September 2008)
Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK (Research Information Network, 2008)
The Cost of Journal Publishing: a literature review and commentary (Donald W King, Learned Publishing 20/2, ALPSP 2007)
JISC Business Model Trials - a report for JISC Collections and the Journals Working Group (Content Complete, JISC, 2007)
The Economics of Open-Access Journals (Mark McCabe & Christopher M Snyder, Working paper, 2006)
The Pricing of Academic Journals (Mark J McCabe, Aviv Nevo & Daniel L Rubinfeld, Berkeley Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series, Paper 199, 2006)
The True Costs of Scholarly Journal Publishing (Sally Morris, Learned Publishing 18/2, ALPSP 2005)
Business models for e-journals: reconciling library and publisher requirements (Hugh Look, Sue Sparks, Helen Henderson, Serials 18/2 (UKSG 2005)
New Journal Publishing Models (Ian Rowlands & David Nicholas, 2005, CIBER report)
Mergers without Markets: do mergers among publishers of academic journals affect prices? (Renée M Duplantis, Daniel E Haar, Stephen D Silberman, Hal Van Gieson & Frederick R Warren-Boulton, Draft article, Nov 2005)
The facts about Open Access: a study of the financial and non-financial effects of alternative business models for scholarly journals (Kaufman-Wills Group, ALPSP 2005)
Learned Society Open Access Business Models (Mary Waltham, JISC 2005)
An evidence based assessment of author pays (Donald King & Carol Tenopir, 2004, Nature Web Focus on Access to the Literature)

What do Societies do with their publishing surpluses? (Christine Baldwin, ALPSP/Blackwell 2004)
Economic Evaluation Model of National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI) ‘Deals’ (LISU, 2001)
Towards Electronic Journals: realities for Scientists, Librarians and Publishers (Carol Tenopir & Donald King, SLA 2000)

Open Access

Report and Recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. (Jan 2010) 31pp
Provision of usage data and manuscript deposit procedures for publishers and repository managers (PEER project, 2009)
Survey of Higher Education Faculty: use of digital repositories and views on Open Access (Primary Research Group, 2009)
Status of open access in the biomedical field in 2005 (M Matsuyabashi et al, 2009, Journal of the Medical Library Association 97: 4-11)
Institutional Repositories: thinking beyond the box (R Albanese, 2009, Library Journal 1 March 2009)
Learned society members and open access (Sally Morris & Sue Thorn, 2009, Learned Publishing 22:221-39)
Scientific Journal Publishing: yearly volume and open access availability (B Björk, A Roos & M Lauri, 2009, Information Research 14 (1) paper 391
Open Access publishing, article downloads and citations: randomised controlled trial (Philip Davis, 2008, British Medical Journal 337:a563
Oxford Journals' adventures in Open Access (Claire Bird, 2008, Learned Publishing 21: 200-8)
JISC Open Access Publication Charge Surveys (Fred Friend, JISC, 2008)
Open Access and Global Participation in Science (James Evans & Jacob Reimer, Science 323: 1025)
PEER Project - investigating the effects of self-archiving (runs to 2011)
Status of open access in the biomedical field in 2005 (Makiko Matsubayashi et al, 2009, Journal of the Medical Library Association 97: 4-11)
JISC Open Access Publication Charge Surveys (Fred Friend, JISC 2008)
Improving Access to Scientific Information for Developing Countries: UK Learned Societies and Journal Access Programmes (UNESCO 2008)
Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial (Philip Davis, Bruce Lewenstein, Daniel Simon, James Booth & Mathew Connolly, British Medical Journal 337: a568, 2008)
Author-choice open access publishing in the biological and medical literature: a citation analysis (Philip Davis, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60: 3-8, 2008).
Research Funders' Policies for the Management of Information Outputs (Research Information Network 2007)
E-prints and journal articles in astronomy: a productive co-existence (Edwin Henneken, Michael Kurtz, Geunther Eichhorn et al, Learned Publishing 20/1, ALPSP 2007)
Open archives and their impact on journal cancellations (Mark Ware, 2006, Learned Publishing 19:226-9)
Institutional Repositories (C W Bailey, 2006, Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit 292)
When is a Journal not a Journal? A closer look at the DOAJ (Sally Morris, Learned Publishing 19/1, ALPSP 2006)
The facts about Open Access: a study of the financial and non-financial effects of alternative business models for scholarly journals (Kaufman-Wills Group, ALPSP 2005)
Learned Society Open Access Business Models (Mary Waltham, JISC 2005)
An evidence based assessment of author pays (Donald King & Carol Tenopir, 2004, Nature Web Focus on Access to the Literature)
Pathfinder research on web-based repositories (Mark Ware, PALS 2004)
The Nine Flavours of Open Access Scholarly Publishing (John Willinsky, 2003, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 49: 263-7)


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