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

[didier.pelaprat at inserm.fr]

Dear Andrew, many many thanks for this answer!

Good point: first all disciplines do not have the same culture and 
application of it.
This is why, in the end of my mail, I precised "in the biomedial field.

Second, fortunately, even in the biomedical field, all Societies do not 
behave the same.

It proves that, in any discipline, the survival of the diffusion organ 
of a scientific community may be compatible with both the principles and 
the research budget.

This is why I think it is very impotant to raise the question ao all: 
some will answer the same as you.

And we will thus be able to ask the others: why don't you follow these 
examples of good health of journals in accordance with the whole 
context?

Didier


Le 15-05-2015 14:39, Andrew A. Adams a écrit :
> 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.