A number of us feel strongly that fee-free BOAI-compliant scholarly publishing is possible and have started a discussion on the OKFN open-access list <a href="http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access">http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access</a>. Initial mail from Jonathan Gray:<br>
<br>>>Hi all,<br>
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>>I'm forwarding a very interesting recent thread about fee-free<br>
scholarly publishing started by Peter Murray-Rust with <br>
Laurent [Romary] from INRIA [1], Richard Poynder, Peter Suber, Jenny Molloy,<br>
Tom Olijhoek, Ross Mounce and several other OKFN folks.<br>
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>>Peter Murray-Rust's original email to Laurent is at the bottom, as<br>
well as some of the subsequent correspondence with Laurent,<br>
Richard Poynder and Peter Suber.<br>
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>>Basically the discussion is about how we can better document and<br>
support 'fee-free' open access journals - which might include case<br>
studies, a possible 'fee-free' OA handbook, publicity and community<br>
building activities, and building a better 'best practises network'<br>
with people and organisations who have done it.<br>
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>>We all agreed that -[...] it would make [...] sense to open this discussion up to others on this list.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>
University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>