Abstract:

Open access to the scholarly information, is a new way in scientific communications, which has based on eliminating every kind of barrier to access scholarly information. There are many studies made in different disciplines about this new method, which has grown recently in current century. Business models, as a strong structure in recognizing business evolutions and analyzing its profitability and stability, is one of the most important fields in open access studies. With a full literature review, this paper presents taxonomy of different business models developed for open access to the scholarly information, which could help in analytically choosing or developing suitable model(s) for different environments and circumstances.