From: "Bargheer, Margo Friederike" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:08:35 +0100

The German Science Foundation has just granted several German
universities with Open Access funds, to be spend on genuine OA
journal fees. Support for books is still missing but that's another issue
to be met.

The program runs for several years and most probably it is expected
that after that time institutions take over and support their scholars
from their own research budget. In the current situation the granted
institutions have to co-fund with at least 25%.   Göttingen we see
this as a test bed that allows us to promote OA publishing among
scholars and support all those that can't pay for OA due to their
respective funding scheme or lack of the latter. If scholars pick up
(and they have started to do so in the last years) we have to negotiate
for instance with our Ministry of Science for additional budget.

Electronic Publishing
SUB Göttingen
Margo Bargheer
+49 1515 288 1644


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:30:09 +0000
>
> Not that I know of Jan. That is why I used the word "suggest". We do know
> that academics did not want to pay more than $500 (but this dates back to
> 2005) and we know that getting funds is the biggest barrier to publishing in
> an OA journal - if I correctly remember the SOAP survey. It would have been
> good if some of the questions in that survey had been a little more
> sophisticated.
>
> It seems to me that the big problem is that most mandates are unfunded,
> where funding can be built into the grant they do not cover most
> publications post grant, and that, judging by presentations, we have
> probably both heard funder who do provide funds for dissemination are not
> going to follow the Wellcome model. Mark Thorley, who speaks for the UK
> Research Councils, at the ALPSP Conference seemed to me to say that there
> was no way in which they would follow the Wellcome model (which gives money
> to publish in an OA journals well after the grant period has finished) and
> that they relied on the "institutions" to chip in then.
>
> At present I cannot see a way of funding which enables everyone to get funds
> to publish. I have not seen a model. I know you have thought a lot about
> these issues and I would be very pleased to learn what your thinking is.
>
> Anthony
>
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> From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:18:40 +0000
>
> Any published research on that?
>
> Jan Velterop
>
> *******
>
> From: "Anthony Watkinson" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> On 18 Nov 2011, at 04:23, Anthony Watkinson wrote:
>
> I suggest that most academics whether they prefer to
> publish in open access journals or not would want the mixed economy that we
> currently have.