An ideal candidate for this approach, I woud have thought: http://theparachute.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/journals-of-nature-and-science.html <http://theparachute.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/journals-of-nature-and-science.html>
Jan Velterop > On 31 Mar 2015, at 13:20, Richard Poynder <richard.poyn...@cantab.net> wrote: > > Despite their high profile advocacy for open access, many librarians have > proved strangely reluctant to practice what they preach. As late as last year > calls were still being made for the profession to start “walking the talk”. > > On the other hand, many librarians have embraced OA, particularly medical > librarians. In 2001, for instance, the Journal of the Medical Library > Association (JMLA) began to make its content freely available on the > Internet. And in 2003 Charles Greenberg, then at the Yale University Medical > Library, launched an open access journal with BioMed Central called > Biomedical Digital Libraries (BDL). One of the first to join the editorial > board (and later to take over as Editor-in-Chief) was Marcus Banks, who was > then working at the US National Library of Medicine. > > Four years later, however, BDL became a victim of BMC’s decision to increase > the cost of the article-processing charges (APCs) it levies. This meant that > few librarians were able to afford to publish in the journal any longer, and > submissions began to dry up. Despite several attempts to move BDL to a > different publishing platform, in 2008 Banks had to make the hard decision to > cease publishing the journal. > > What do we learn from BDL’s short life? In advocating for pay-to-publish gold > OA did open access advocates underestimate how much it costs to publish a > journal? Or have publishers simply been able to capture open access and use > it to further ramp up what many believe to be their excessive profits? Why > has JMLA continued to prosper under open access while BDL has withered and > died? Was BDL unable to compete with JMLA on a level playing field? Could the > demise of BDL have been avoided? What, if anything, does the journal’s fate > tell us about the future of open access? > > These and other questions are discussed with Banks in a Q&A interview here: > > http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-life-and-death-of-open-access.html > <http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-life-and-death-of-open-access.html> > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org <mailto:GOAL@eprints.org> > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > <http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal>
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