[GOAL] $1, 300 per article or $25, 000 annual subsidy can generously support small scholar-led OA journal publishing

[Heather Morrison]

Drawing from interviews and focus groups with editors of small scholar-led journals, I've developed one generous model that illustrates how $1,300 per article or a $25,000 / year journal subsidy can generously a support small open access journal. In brief, for a small journal publishing only 20 peer-reviewed articles per year, this amount could fund top-of-the-line journal hosting, free up the time of a senior academic to devote just a little less than one full day per article, hire a part-time senior support staff at a nice hourly rate to provide over 2 days' support per peer-reviewed article, with an annual budget of $2,500 for extra costs.

Calculations here:
http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/14/1300-per-article-or-25k-year-in-subsidy-can-generously-support-quality-scholar-led-oa-journal-publishing/

best,

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Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca