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