Mary Waltham, The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and Humanities Associations

The final version of a report from the National Humanities Alliance (dated February 18, 2009, but released this week). From p. 31: "Analysis of the journal costs provided for this study confirm that a shift to an entirely new funding model in the pure form of Open Access (author/producer pays) in which the costs of publishing research articles in journals are paid for by authors or by a funding agency, and readers have access to these publications for free, is not feasible for this group of journals." (PS: Passages at pp. 2, 19, 26, and 31 leave the false impression that charging publication fees is the only business model for OA journals.)