From: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:34:40 -0700

MedKnow, based in Mumbai, and founded by D.K. Sahu, use a freemium
model for its suite of journals. But Medknow is now owned by Kluwer:

http://www.medknow.com/

The Journal of Medical Internet Research, founded by Gunther
Eysenbach, is a good example of a freemium journal:
http://www.jmir.org/

OpenEdition (formerly Revues.org) also has a large number of freemium
journals and books:
http://www.openedition.org/

Leslie Chan
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From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:04:32 -0400

Aren't there already some journals published under a freemium model?

Perhaps some of our readers can remind us what these are?

Cordially, Ann


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From: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 06:41:21 +0000

Anthony,

At the British Library last week JISC and OAPEN organised a conference
on Open Access for Monographs in Social Sciences and Humanities. There
were a number of case studies (including OECD's) and what I found
striking was that nearly all used a freemium business model where the
content was free to read online (html) but a deeper experience,
downloading/copying etc, required paid access rights, as did access to
richer formats like ePub. It did occur to some present that maybe STM
journals could learn from this. Maybe this is the mixed economy you
imagine?  Personally, I think it would be interesting to see if
freemium (free to read, pay to download and richer formats) would work
for journals, it might be a lot simpler and perhaps cheaper for
everyone.

(For those interested some of the presentations at the conference were
recorded and are available via the conference website.)

Toby Green
Head of Publishing, OECD
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