Interconnection among academic journal websites: multilateral versus bilateral interconnection
比较了学术期刊网站通过开放平台的多边互联与双边互联两种模式，发现多边互联下出版商完全互联，而双边互联常因排他或差异化动机导致部分互联；多边互联中开放平台福利低于营利平台。
Electronic academic journal websites provide text and data mining (and linking) services. Fully realizing the benefit of these services requires interconnection among websites. We perform a comparison between multilateral interconnection through an open platform and bilateral interconnection, and find that publishers are fully interconnected in the former regime whereas they are often partially interconnected in the latter regime for exclusion or differentiation motives. If partial interconnection arises for differentiation motives, exclusion of a small publisher(s) occurs more often in the former than in the latter. In the case of multilateral interconnection, an open platform generates lower welfare than a for‐profit platform.