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This essay surveys the current framework of scholarly publishing and it examines the shift from the long lasting paradigm sometime denoted as Restricted Access (RA) to the recently emerged model of the Open Access. This change does not only imply a change in who pays forvthe a journal, but it raises a number of issues concerning scholarly communication and academics' behavior.
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Migheli, M., Ramello, G.B. (2019). Scholarly Publishing and Open Access. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_759
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