See the OpenEdition Freemium  for humanities, in France : 
http://cleo.cnrs.fr/938

Hélène Bosc
Open Access to Scientific Communication
http://open-access.infodocs.eu/tiki-index.php

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <l.hurt...@ed.ac.uk>
To: <goal@eprints.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 11:13 AM
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Finding a business model for a growing Open 
AccessJournal


I'm President of my UK learned society, and have had no contact about
the Finch project or anything connected with scholarly publishing.
So, I'm not confident that the scholarly community has been involved
adequately in the Finch process (though I stand to be corrected).
 From what little I've learned thus far of the "Gold OA" proposal, I'm
worried, particularly for two constituencies:
--The models all seem heavily driven by the problems and practices of
the sciences, with little regard for the Humanities.  We don't (never
have) paid page charges.  Our journals aren't typically expensive at
all (an "expensive" journal might cost a univ library a few hundred
quid at most, and that would be rare).  We don't typically have
research grants to pay page charges (the govts typically don't see
Humanities research as important enough to fund it in any measure
other than token).
--There are a number of private scholars in the Humanities who don't
hold Univ posts but produce high-quality work.  Who will pay their
page charges?

In short, once again, the Humanities seem to have been left largely
out of the thinking about consequences of the various models.

Larry Hurtado

Quoting "Hélène.Bosc" <hbosc-tcher...@orange.fr> on Thu, 19 Jul 2012
21:13:57 +0200:

> See also this study :
> BJÖRK, B.C. A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access
> Journals. Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 13 (4), 2011.
> http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e115/
>
> Hélène Bosc
> Open access to Scientific Communication
> http://open-access.infodocs.eu/tiki-index.php
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Peter Suber
>   To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
>   Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:01 PM
>   Subject: [GOAL] Re: Finding a business model for a growing Open
> AccessJournal
>
>
>   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
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>     Peter Murray-Rust
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>     Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>     University of Cambridge
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