[GOAL] Re: Paid Gold vs. Free Gold

[Andrew A. Adams]

> Are there examples of such "subscription journals that make their
> online version freely accessible online (immediately upon publication)."

Policy and Internet, which used to be published by BEPress (and annoyingly, 
links to their site are now dead, without them telling authors) but since 
moved to Wiley Online Library. The subscription is online only and 
institutional only. BEPress used to have a "nag-wall" in the way of access 
(they requested but didn't require that you recommend institutional 
subscription to your librarian to help fund the journal). The annual 
institutional subscription rate is $327 pa. I'm not sure what, other than 
helping to ensure the viability of the journal, this subscription gets the 
institution since both the HTML and PDF versions of all the papers seem to be 
open (I don't think we have an institutional subscription that's invisible to 
me, though I haven't checked from home).


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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/