ARL 227: On the Transition of Journals to Open Access

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-03-25

Summary:

"The proposed solution presents a way to manage the inevitable transition period, with little financial risk to the owners. It is based on the model provided by Tom Walker in Florida Entomologist, published by the Florida Entomological Society <http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/> and the journals of the Entomological Society of America <http://www.entsoc.org/pubs/>. Authors would be presented with two options:

To pay a publication charge--the paper is then made open access on publication.

Not to pay the publication charge--the paper is only made available to subscribers.

This would result in a hybrid journal in which access to each paper would depend on the authors' willingness to pay the publication fee. This is a low-risk strategy for the journal's owner as they would still collect subscription revenue. In year one (say 2004) authors would be invited to pay for open access. The subscription price would be set to what is required to cover costs if no authors took up the offer. Any author payments would then be a bonus! In year two (2005), the subscription price would be set based on the experience in 2004...."

Link:

https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/258232/1/openaccess.html

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Tags:

oa.hybrid oa.gold oa.conversions oa.business_models oa.fees oa.journals

Date tagged:

03/25/2017, 16:49

Date published:

03/25/2017, 12:49