Open Access as the Napster of Scholarly Communication

This article compares the disruptive impact Napster had on the music industry in the early 2000s to the disruptive impact Open Access (OA) movements (both legal and illegal) are having on scholarly communication through the lens of a nonprofit scientific publisher that wants to transition to OA, but is uncertain how.

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This article compares the disruptive impact Napster had on the music industry in the early 2000s to the disruptive impact Open Access (OA) movements (both legal and illegal) are having on scholarly communication through the lens of a nonprofit scientific publisher that wants to transition to OA, but is uncertain how.