[Open-access] SCOAP3

Thu Jul 19 11:21:44 UTC 2012

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Katie Foxall <katie at ecancer.org> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I haven't posted before but have been following the discussions with much
> interest and have founds the info and links provided by various people
> really useful.  I run an open access cancer journal
> http://ecancer.org/ecms
> which has no author fees - we are currently mainly supported by charity
> funding but the journal has been growing at a great rate this year so I'm
> looking into accessing any funding that might be out there to support open
> access publishing.  The reality is that we will have to start charging
> author fees at some point if we can't get more funding and we really don't
> want to do that as providing a free service for the oncology community is
> very important to us.
>
> So does anyone know whether there is anything like SCOAP3 in the field of
> medical publishing?
>
>
I don't think there is anything directly comparable - I would be happy to
post this on the GOAL open access list to gather ideas and to get some idea
of what the best estimate of break-even costs may be.

IMO SCOAP3 works because of the following factors:not

* the sense of community  - there is a reasonably clear distinction between
whether you are an HEP person or
* it's used to managing large funding and large projects.
* there is already a tradition of openness in physics (ArXiV).

I had the fortune to be invited to CERN by Salvatore Mele - a major
influence in SCOAP3 while they were building the ATLAS (which found the
Higgs). He said something like "Last week we lowered 500 M Eur or equipment
down that hole. A journal will cost 10 million (IIRC). We know how to run
large projects".

So I don't think the precise mechanism for cancer is there - but SCOAP3 has
proven the model can work and that makes new ideas much more tractable.

I have an idea which I might follow offline if you have ideas of the costs.

P.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice anyone might be able to give me,
>
> Katie Foxall
>
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> Not got so much press as the big announcements this week but this is a big
> deal. Communities can just decide unilaterally to move to OA.
>
> http://scoap3.org/news/news94.html
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