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

[Hélène.Bosc]

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 
  To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
  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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