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
Hi Larry,
An Open Access journal must not necessarily be funded by author fees, but can
also be covered by institutional funding (universities, research institution,
charities, funders ...) without any cost for the authors. That is the
experience with almost all running OA journals in the
Hi Larry,
I can recommend this book by Kathleen Fitzpatrick about Open Access and
open peer review in humanities.
The book is available in the Mediacommons open peer review environment:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/
The author elaborates the need for a
