I am forwarding a message from the OKFN's open-access list ( http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access which uses the term strictly to mean BOAI-compliant).
The poster Katie runs a successful OA journal and asks how she can scale up without APCs. She raises the idea of a SCOAP3-like model for cancer. There must be a number of other people with the same question: * they don't want closed access * they don't want author-side fees * they recognize the money has to come from somewhere. Katie (and I) would be interested to know of possible models and possible nuclei of like-minded groups. This seems to me one of the key problems of the current time of transition. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Katie Foxall <ka...@ecancer.org> Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [Open-access] SCOAP3 To: open-acc...@lists.okfn.org Hello all I haven't posted [on OKFN open-access] before but have been following the discussions with much interest and have founds the info and links provided by various people really useful. I run an open access cancer journal http://ecancer.org/ecms which has no author fees - we are currently mainly supported by charity funding but the journal has been growing at a great rate this year so I'm looking into accessing any funding that might be out there to support open access publishing. The reality is that we will have to start charging author fees at some point if we can't get more funding and we really don't want to do that as providing a free service for the oncology community is very important to us. So does anyone know whether there is anything like SCOAP3 in the field of medical publishing? Thanks in advance for any help or advice anyone might be able to give me, Katie Foxall -----Original Message----- From: open-access-boun...@lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-access-boun...@lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of c...@cameronneylon.net Sent: 18 July 2012 15:50 To: open-acc...@lists.okfn.org Subject: [Open-access] SCOAP3 Not got so much press as the big announcements this week but this is a big deal. Communities can just decide unilaterally to move to OA. http://scoap3.org/news/news94.html _______________________________________________ open-access mailing list open-acc...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access _______________________________________________ open-access mailing list open-acc...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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