Description
Gary Price, Editor, infoDOCKET and Jean-Gabriel Bankier, President/CEO of bepress continue our expert dialogue series in the Open Access movement. Questions include:
- Can you talk about the history of bepress and any planned growth areas?
- Are libraries your only clients, and if not, what are some of the alternative markets?
- What are the challenges of being a commercial entity in the open access arena?
- Once a repository is up and running, is most of the client material open access?
- Can you share your views on open access and the current academic publishing ecosystem?
- What does bepress do to help make repository material findable?
- Are libraries doing a good job of promoting to users that this material is available?
- How can the academic library community promote institutional repository usage?
- How are your non-academic clients discovering repositories?
- Do you think there's a need for standardization of metadata, to make it more uniform?
- Could libraries play a role by adding or improving metadata once it's placed in a repository?
- Is there confusion about where to place, find, and search for open access materials?
- What's next for bepress?
Keywords
- open access,
- bepress
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 13, 2016
Citation Information
Jean-Gabriel Bankier and Gary Price. "Gary Price and Jean-Gabriel Bankier Discuss Open Access" (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jean_gabriel_bankier/28/