I was thinking that some people may feel the needs and aspirations of small community-based journals would be somewhat different to the needs and aspirations of those large commercial publishers that have joined OASPA.
-----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Bo-Christer Björk Sent: 09 August 2012 11:45 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Publications managed by scholarly communities/institutions Hi, The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) also welcomes individual journal members, but despite a very low yearly fee of 90 USD for such journals, rather few have joined. Journal of Information Technology in Construction is one example and I've been a board member for three years. In practice however the active members of the association are those charging APCs. I don't see much point in forming a new association, but rather some form of co-operation with OASPA and with DOAJ could be useful. DOAJ by the way includes information about wheather a journal charges an APC or not. The majority do not. Of this majority perhaps half are old usually society or university journals which have just made the e-version free. Still leaves some 2000 journals which could qualify as born OA community efforts. If any sort of list is compiled perhaps the best way would be by tagging those journals in DOAJ which fulfil the criteria Bo-Christer Björk PS all the four journals I mentioned before should qualify and there "story" can be found in editorials and a couple of case story articles. _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
