Economics. We discuss the main difficulties an independent journal faces in maintaining the policy of open access and …In this editorial statement, we present a balance of the first decade of life of the European Journal of Government and … publication free of charge. We also renew the commitment to the journal's spirit, particularly with the editorial rigour and best …

A new economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing — journal publishing in particular — is proposed that draws … externalities on each other, subject to congestion. A journal is a self-constituted group, endeavouring to create new knowledge. In … this sense ‘a journal is a club'. The knowledge club model of a journal seeks to balance the positive externalities due to …