There are more and more options for non-exploitative publishers | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

"One of the more significant things to have happened [recently] is the announcement of RVHost, a hosted end-to-end scholarly publishing solution provided by River Valley Technologies.

It’s not so long ago that scholarly publishing remained technically difficult, and could only be achieved by using expensive proprietary technologies. Journals that rolled their own tended to make rather creaky systems that were not much fun to use — and come to that, the commercial systems were mostly pretty wretched, too. But now there are a lot more options. I’ve surely missed some, but among the low-cost, open-oriented hosted publishing solutions out there are:

• Open Journal Systems, the daddy of them all, dating back to 2001. As well as offering a hosted solution, the publishing software itself is free to download and use.
• Ubiquity Press, a content-neutral publisher that can be used to run any journal, and which is at the heart of the Open Library of Humanities‘ own journal.
• Scholastica, a very low-cost solution which is used to host (among many others) Discrete Analysis and Advances in Combinatorics.
• Now, RVHost...."