%0 Journal Article
%T Economics and quality estimation of open access journals
%A Francke
%A Helena
%J Svensk Biblioteksforskning
%D 2005
%I 
%X In university libraries and the scholarly community, there is growing concern with the high costs of scholarly journal publishing and a rising movement in favour of Open Access publishing. There are many factors that will influence the success of non-profit and Open Access journals; economic power, economic survival, political values, and status changes are only a few of these. This article provides a critical introduction to two of these areas ¨C economic survival and status ¨C in order to illustrate two important factors of Open Access survival. In particular focus is the idea of the value of information and the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) as a potential measurement of journal quality. It is argued that an institutional approach may add a broader perspective that may serve to contextualise both these ideas.
%K scholarly publishing
%K Open Access
%K electronic journals
%K economics of information
%K scientometrics
%K Journal Impact Factor
%U http://www.hb.se/bhs/svbf/arkiv/helfra.pdf