Supporting Open Access of Scientific Papers through cheaper long-term archival - Marketing - maidsafe.org

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-03-08

Summary:

"The research community around programming languages is re-thinking the publication model, especially regarding open access for all. Here is a transcript of the context of a survey I received today. The interesting bit to me is the operational cost of maintaining the ACM Digital Library, at 2.6M$ (about 25% of costs), which maybe could be drastically lower if the archival was done using spare resources of users. There still need to be humans in the loop to ensure submissions to the library meet requirement standards, and I don't have the figures for that yet ... For comparison, I found the Arxiv operating business projections and the server costs only amount to about 50,000$/year. The biggest gains are to be found in lowering the cost of maintaining the system, projected to be between 164k$ and 238k$ per year ..."

Link:

https://www.maidsafe.org/t/supporting-open-access-of-scientific-papers-through-cheaper-long-term-archival/3243

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.societies oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.economics_of oa.curation oa.preservation

Date tagged:

03/08/2015, 10:20

Date published:

03/08/2015, 06:20