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Scholarly Publishing and Open Access

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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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  1. Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Matteo Migheli

  2. CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy

    Matteo Migheli

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Matteo Migheli & Giovanni Battista Ramello

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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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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