This Management Report summarizes the main descriptive results of a study onresearcher’s acceptance of Open Access publishing. The study was conducted in2006 by the Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich, Germany, in cooperation withthe University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The main focus is...

Die Organisation der Kommunikation wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse wird derzeit kontrovers diskutiert.Insbesondere Bibliothekare und Verlage stehen sich mit ihren Standpunkten vielfach konträr gegenüber.Bibliothekare sehen sich als Opfer ständiger Preiserhöhungen insbesondere bei...

Is there a trade-off of scholarly research productivity when faculty members found or join for-profit firms? This paper offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of biomedical academic scientists who received research funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health...

University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...