INNOVATIVE AUGMENTATION: REIMAGINING HISTORY WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL TECH IN SUMMER RESORTS

Abstract

This paper examines the changing pricing mechanisms used to finance scholarly communication in physics in the 20th century. The paper argues that the American Institute of Physics (AIP) sought to create a new source of revenue in a time when there was decreased revenue from author page charges and reader subscriptions. The paper traces the AIP's efforts to legitimize the page charge pricing mechanism in the 1930s, the erosion of revenue from this source in the 1960s, and the reaction of the scholarly society to changes in the copyright law in the 1970s. The paper then outlines the revised copyright law passed in 1976 and the policies the AIP adopted around this revised law to potentially capture revenue from selling access to the scholarly article. The paper concludes with a discussion of the role served by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) in the years immediately after the 1976 Copyright Act.