From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:29:39 -0500

Just curious, how does this differ from the subscription model since
the costs are paid by libraries, except that it allows everyone not
paying the price to be free riders? Isn't this rather like the system
that now exists for supporting university presses, with a hundred or
so universities picking up the costs for running presses while all
other universities are essentially free riders (though do contribute
something, of course, through purchase of books)?

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Marcin Wojnarski <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:15:45 +0200
>
> [source: http://blog.paperity.org/2015/09/29/paperity-and-open-library-of-humanities-partner-to-enhance-discoverability/]
>
> We're very pleased to announce a partnership between Paperity, the
> open-access aggregator, and the Open Library of Humanities. This is
> part of the ongoing commitment to solid discoverability principles for
> open-access articles at the OLH.
>
> Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access
> journals and papers. It aims to give readers easy and unconstrained
> access to thousands of journals from hundreds of disciplines, in one
> central location; to help authors reach their target audience,
> disseminate discoveries more effectively and maximize research impact;
> and to raise the exposure of journals, helping editors and publishers
> boost readership and encourage new submissions.
>
> The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access
> publisher with no author-facing charges. With funding from the Andrew
> W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers its costs by payments from
> an international library consortium, rather than any kind of author
> fee.
>
> Dr. Martin Paul Eve, a founder and academic project director of the
> OLH, said of the partnership: "We are delighted to have OLH journals
> indexed in Paperity. It is vital that we encourage discoverability and
> indexing of open-access material so that the broadest scholarly
> benefit is derived from our work. Along with their aggregation
> services, Paperity's partnership with EBSCO Information Services and
> Altmetric will help us to achieve this goal."
>
> Marcin Wojnarski, CEO of Paperity, added: "It is real pleasure for us
> to include OLH in Paperity. The humanities started embracing Open
> Access a long time ago and today there are already thousands of
> journals publishing OA, but so far these efforts have been very
> dispersed and disconnected from each other, without any clear leader
> to advocate for openness on behalf of all humanities scholars. We hope
> the OLH project, with its broad support among academics, innovative
> funding model and a strong commitment to publishing multiple
> high-quality journals in various areas of humanities research, will
> take the lead in the transformation towards universal Open Access and
> will pave the way for many other humanities journals to join the Open
> Access movement. We think OLH is an exceptional initiative, and very
> much needed in the humanities disciplines."
>
> Four OLH journals have been included in Paperity right after their
> launch, and more will be added in the near future. The complete list
> can be found at:
>
> http://paperity.org/journals/1?publisher=Open%20Library%20of%20Humanities.
>
> Journals wishing to join the OLH platform should submit an initial enquiry to:
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> After the September launch of the OLH, applications will be subject to
> the platform's joining procedure. Libraries outside the US and UK
> interested in joining the OLH Library Partnership Subsidy model should
> contact Dr. Martin Paul Eve:
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> UK-based libraries can join through Jisc Collections at:
>
> http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/Index/2120.
>
> US-based libraries can join through LYRASIS at:
>
> https://lyrasis.openlibhums.org.
>
>
> --
> Marcin Wojnarski, Founder and CEO at Paperity, www.paperity.org
> www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski
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> www.twitter.com/Paperity
>
> Paperity. Open science aggregated.