<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Why should I publish in your Open Access Project?</blockquote>
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Could you please summarise the advantages to authors as well as to the research community?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't want to preempt any sort of more elaborate response by the people who are actually</div>
<div>involved, but here is my hunch:</div><div>Books, as they are today, are not a good tool for disseminating original material because of</div><div>the substantial price tag attached to them (and, for obvious reasons, you don't know what</div>
<div>you are buying unless you already have the chapter in question from the author's</div><div>website, or have read a review of the chapter or book somewhere).</div><div>If you don't care about people reading your work, but have to worry about impact factor, here's</div>
<div>a quantitative analysis from a nearby field:</div><div><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/08/29/how-to-bury-your-academic-writing/">http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/08/29/how-to-bury-your-academic-writing/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>A high-quality open access book series (which is what we should hope for) would remove the</div><div>paywall between your work and your potential readers, and thereby get your work more visibility.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Yannick</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Dr. Yannick Versley<div><br><div>Sonderforschungsbereich 833</div></div><div>Universität Tübingen</div><div>Nauklerstr. 35</div><div>72074 Tübingen</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tel.: +49-7071-29 77155</div>