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 ________________________________ 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 Sent from my BlackBerry