[BOAI] Maney Publishing marks Open Access Week with open content

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Maney Publishing.  --Peter Suber.]


*Maney Publishing marks Open Access Week with open content*

Open Access Week, now in its fifth year, runs from 24-30 October 2011. It is
an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about
the potential benefits of Open Access. “Open Access” to information is the
free, immediate, online access to scholarly research, and the right to use
and re-use those results as you need.

This is also a great opportunity for Maney and other publishers to discuss
and review new directions in scholarly communication.

To coincide with Open Access Week, Maney will be offering open access to all
Archaeology & Heritage content from 24 October until 4 November. During this
period we will be offering free, immediate access to the results of
scholarly research to use and re-use as and when you need via ingenta.

We are interested in finding out your opinion on a variety of aspects of
Open Access publishing; if you would like to share your opinion, please
complete our survey here. All  survey participants will be entered into our
prize draw for the opportunity to win free access to a journal of your
choice for you/your institution for 12 months.

Maney Publishing understands the changing requirements of customers and has
developed a hybrid open access business model. MORE Open Choice was
specifically designed with the needs of science, technology and medical
research councils in mind.  In January 2011, it was extended to cover
humanities titles. MORE Open Choice now ensures that Maney authors across
all disciplines are offered the opportunity to place their work in the
public domain.
The article processing charges during Open Access Week will be reduced for
Archaeology and Heritage titles to £300/$480 for three months to encourage
more Maney authors to consider whether MORE Open Choice is an appealing
option for them.

Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, Business Development Manager at Maney Publishing
comments: “Like many, we are keen to learn more from our customers so that
we adapt and develop to suit their needs. We hope our authors, readers and
key intermediaries such as librarians will participate in our surveys and
promotions during OA week and thereby provide us with the much needed
feedback that we depend on.”

Full details of Maney’s OA model are available on the website at
www.maney.co.uk/moreopenchoice


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Maney Publishing is a leading independent publisher of academic and
professional journals. Specialising in materials science and engineering,
health and life sciences, and the humanities, Maney is committed to
technical and editorial innovation for the international dissemination of
peer-reviewed scholarship and research. With traditional values of quality
and collaboration, Maney delivers personalised service to authors,
societies, readers and libraries, and publishes extensively for learned
societies, universities and professional bodies around the world. Maney’s
offices are in Leeds and London in the UK, and Cambridge and Philadelphia in
North America.

For more information please contact:
Layla Robleh, Corporate Communications Executive, Maney Publishing
Email: l.robleh at maney.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)113 386 8160

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