From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:09:03 -0500
> From: Jean-Claude Guédon <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:46:00 -0400
>
> You might want to look at the SciELO and Redalyc models in latin
> America. Both are supported mainly by public money and some foundation
> money.
Given the history of regime change in Latin America, I wouldn't feel
terribly confident about relyoing on government support as a long-term
strategy.
Here in the U.S. we have just seen Congress defund political science
research. They are certainly going to pay for making it OA.
> An endowment is ideal, of course, but the vagaries of politics and
> priorities are not so different from the vagaries of the market,
> except when oligopoles manage to work without having to pay much (if
> any) attention to the market.
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
> Professeur titulaire
> Littérature comparée
> Université de Montréal
>
>
> Le dimanche 24 mars 2013 à 12:40 -0400, LIBLICENSE a écrit :
>
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:15:09 -0500
>
> I would be interested in knowing more about how OA models that do not
> depend on authors paying manage to ensure that OA can be done more
> cost efficiently than regular subscription-based publishing.
>
> The example cited here is OpenEdition's Freemium program, which
> charges libraries for extra services beyond the basic delivery of the
> articles in OA form.
>
> What assurances are there that library funding will be available, in
> sufficient amounts, on an ongoing basis to cover the full costs of
> running the OpenEdition operation? In times when budgets are tight,
> why should universities spend the money to get these extra services
> when the basic information is all free anyway?
>
> I note that the Centre that Mr. Dacos heads is supported by a
> combination of government and private foundation money. Given that
> both of these sources are subject to vagaries of politics and
> priorities from year to year, how can these be considered stable
> sources of long-term financing?
>
> For my money, the only really sensible approach for sustaining OA over
> time is to set it up on the basis of endowments, as the Stanford
> Encyclopedia of Philosophy has done--a magnificent example of OA
> publishing in the humanities, by the way.
>
> Sandy Thatcher
>
>
>> From: Marin Dacos <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:05:36 +0100
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> The French newspaper Le Monde has published a public statement, signed
>> by sixty members of the academic community (Presidents of
>> universities, Librarians, Journals, publishers and researchers) under
>> the title "Who is afraid of open access ?". The original paper is here
>> : http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/03/15/qui-a-peur-de-l-open-acces_1848930_1650684.html
>>
>> More than 1500 people already signed this statement, calling for open
>> access as fast as possible and asking for HSS taking leadership in
>> this direction. It is now available in English :
>> http://iloveopenaccess.org/arguments-for-open-access/
>>
>> You can sign it : http://iloveopenaccess.org/?page_id=329
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marin Dacos
>> Director - OpenEdition
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