From: Alison Mudditt <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 07:23:57 -0400

Dear Subbiah,

The library membership fees Jim mentions below are optional and are
designed for libraries who would like and are able to help support new
initiatives in scholarly communication - such as Luminos - get off the
ground. We're delighted that the library community has been willing to
support Luminos generously in its first year.

The good news is that access to all of the books published in Luminos
is completely free, under Creative Commons licenses. Visit the website
at:

www.luminosoa.org

and you can read all titles or download them in your preferred e-book format.

Best regards,

Alison

Alison Mudditt
Director
University of California Press
510-883-8240    |   www.ucpress.edu



On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:29 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 09:47:38 +0530
>
> If this project is 'open' (as in 'open access'), then the membership
> fees ranging from $1,000 to $20,000+ appears to be rather high - at
> least for scientists and scholars in the low and middle income
> economies.
>
> I wonder if a better model could be to persuade philanthropic
> foundations to underwrite the costs and make the monographs freely
> accessible (under an appropriate Creative Commons license).
>
> Subbiah Arunachalam
> India
> --
> Arun
>
> http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658
> http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 6:33 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:11:40 -0700
> >
> > The Luminos open monograph publishing enterprise at the University of
> > California Press continues to develop (http://www.luminosoa.org):  it
> > depends on library memberships at various tiers to fund publication of
> > open access monographs.
> >
> > If I read it right, there are fourteen volumes published and five more
> > "coming soon".  For $1,000-5,000, annual membership is the Courier
> > level, $5,000-10,000 Garamond, $10,000-20,000 Helvetica, and $20,000+
> > Futura.  The books are still formatted for print, so the online
> > reading interface has the usual annoyances (floundering back and forth
> > between text and notes, e.g.), but they may also helpfully be
> > downloaded in epub, mobi, and pdf format.  Paperback copies may be
> > purchased.  Watching this new service and business model with
> > interest.
> >
> > Jim O'Donnell
> > Arizona State University