[Open-access] Fwd: [GOAL] Re: Finding a business model for a growing Open AccessJournal

Thu Jul 19 19:40:11 UTC 2012

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hélène.Bosc <hbosc-tchersky at orange.fr>
Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Finding a business model for a growing Open
AccessJournal
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>

**
See also this study :
BJÖRK, B.C. *A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access
Journals*. Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 13 (4), 2011.
http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e115/

Hélène Bosc
Open access to Scientific Communication
http://open-access.infodocs.eu/tiki-index.php

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Peter Suber <peter.suber at gmail.com>
*To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org>
*Sent:* Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:01 PM
*Subject:* [GOAL] Re: Finding a business model for a growing Open
AccessJournal

See the list of OA journal business models at the Open Access Directory.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models

     Peter

Peter Suber
gplus.to/petersuber

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am forwarding a message from the OKFN's open-access list (
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access which uses the term
> strictly to mean BOAI-compliant).
>
> The poster Katie runs a successful OA journal and asks how she can scale
> up without APCs. She raises the idea of a SCOAP3-like model for cancer.
> There must be a number of other people with the same question:
> * they don't want closed access
> * they don't want author-side fees
> * they recognize the money has to come from somewhere.
>
> Katie (and I) would be interested to know of possible models and possible
> nuclei of like-minded groups.
>
> This seems to me one of the key problems of the current time of transition.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Katie Foxall <katie at ecancer.org>
> Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Open-access] SCOAP3
> To: open-access at lists.okfn.org
>
>
> Hello all
>
> I haven't posted [on OKFN open-access] 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?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or advice anyone might be able to give me,
>
> Katie Foxall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of
> cn at cameronneylon.net
> Sent: 18 July 2012 15:50
> To: open-access at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [Open-access] SCOAP3
>
> 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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