On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Raf Dekeyser <raf.dekey...@bib.kuleuven.be>wrote:
> A good example is "LIBER Quarterly", the journal of LIBER, the European > Association of Research Libraries. > Last year a completely new Editorial Board of 19 people was installed, > organizing the peer review, and as > a retired professor I am working as managing editor on a voluntary basis. > Small costs, like the hosting > by Utrecht's Igitur on an OJS platform, are covered by LIBER. For more > information: see http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq > - > Raf Dekeyser > > Thanks Raf / Laurent I congratulate you on doing this in your retirement, therefore costing the system essentially zero cash and providing huge value. There are many other people who I suspect would be very interested in helping to run Open Scholarship. They could be retired academics, professionals in related disciplines with spare time, or citizens with an interest in a subject (ornithology, sauropods, diseases, planning, mathematics, history - the list is endless). Many are the equals of academics and its often only the ivory-towerism that prevents them being involved. It won't work for all subjects, but it's enormously worth trying. For example when I was working in Glaxo I was among those (Treasurer) who set up the Molecular Graphics Society (now MGMS). The society covered its costs, subscription was 5 GBP per year (1986) and for that the members got a free print copy of the journal. Because it was print there were libraries subscriptions but none of those came to the society. We generated income in other ways. Yes, there needs to be some money somewhere in the system but it's a few percent at most of Nature's 10000 USD per paper. Most people maintain their comms, website, etc on a domestic basis out of their own pocket and when pooled this is a large free resource. A group of committed individuals *can* set up and run a journal (and also help evolve it into the next generation of scholarly communication). Let us look to new community models of publishing besides simply paying commercial publishers. (The latter is unlikely to generate efficiency or C21 innovation). -- 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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