Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models: Views from a Non-Economist

The Houghton and Oppenheim paper and the JISC report focus on three publishing
models: subscription publishing; open access (OA) publishing (often called ?Gold
OA?); and open access self-archiving. The author responds respond both as an academic who conducts research, writes about it and tries to get it published, and as a researcher interested in scholarly communication, publishing and open access.