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

[Andrew A. Adams]

Not all academic societies with large publishing arms have their heads in the 
sand, nor are expecting the publishing income stream to continue to be a 
significant net revenue for long. As part of the ACM (*) for the last few 
years I have been raising OA issues, including the question of APCs. The 
response of the senior management, both appointed/employed and elected has 
been measured and reasonable. ACM is fully green-compliant, offers some 
interesting open access elements itself and has APCs of $1700 for non-members 
or $1300 for members of the ACM or a Special Interest Group (and since these 
memberships costs significantly less than $400 for the minimum and only one 
author needs to be a member, one would be foolish not to take a cheap 
membership if one insisted on paying for the hybrid Gold - although since ACM 
is Green that is paying for Fool's Gold). There are plans to reduce these 
prices over time, particularly as they can drive down their associated costs.





(*) for non-computer scientists, the Association for Computing Machinery, one 
of the largest computer societies in the world and together with the IEEE 
(which includes a Computer Society as a sub-unit) publish a large proportion 
of the journals and refereed conference proceedings that constitute the 
academic computer science literature.
-- 
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/