See the list of OA journal business models at the Open Access Directory. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models
Peter Peter Suber gplus.to/petersuber On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > >
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