[GOAL] Finding a business model for a growing Open Access Journal

[Peter Murray-Rust]

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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Peter Murray-Rust
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