Thieme Medical Publishers | Thieme to launch new Pay What You Want Open Access Journal this spring

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-06-05

Summary:

"What is a fair price for an author to publish their article in a journal? With the launch of their new journal, The Surgery Journal, Thieme is hoping to try and answer this question. Thieme is proud to announce their collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich’s School of Management and Department of Economics in a groundbreaking research project. The project involves examining authors’ perceptions of Article Processing Fees (APC) and Pay What You Want (PWYW) as a business model for academic journals. The LMU research department will be setting up the trial parameters so that the results can be analyzed and ultimately published for academics, publishers and anyone else interested in Open Access publishing and PWYW as a business model ..."

Link:

http://www.thieme.com/index.php?Itemid=91&catid=82%3A2015&id=881%3Athieme-to-launch-new-pay-what-you-want-open-access-journal-this-spring&option=com_content&view=article

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.studies oa.fees oa.prices oa.thieme oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.gold oa.journals oa.announcements

Date tagged:

06/05/2015, 06:56

Date published:

06/05/2015, 02:56