摘要：The landscape of the scholarly publishing market has been largely defined by subscription-based publishing models that have existed since the earliest days of scholarly journal publishing. If there is a widespread shift from these subscription-based models to an open-access model based on publication charges, the fundamental nature of the scholarly publishing industry will transform from that of a content-providing industry to a service-providing industry. The benefits that this
transformation will bring to the research community are in many ways as
important as the benefits that an open access model will have in terms of
increasing online access to scholarly literature.
