Re: Hindawi Announces an Open Access Institutional Membership Program

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

Is this not subscription by another name? True, free riders 
everywhere (including private corporations) get a benefit, but 
the major research libraries are again stuck paying the 
bill--probably paying more because the corporations have no need 
to do so, unless they too have many of their staff contributing 
articles to Hindawi journals.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State Press


>Press Release
>August 18, 2008
>
>Hindawi Announces an Open Access Institutional Membership Program
>
>Hindawi Publishing Corporation is pleased to announce the launch
>of its Open Access Institutional Membership program, which will
>enable authors from member institutes to publish their work in
>Hindawi's 125+ open access journals without having to administer
>and pay any Article Processing Charges from their individual
>research budgets.
>
>"I am very happy to be announcing this new membership program,
>since it will give us an opportunity to work with librarians and
>research administrators to encourage their authors to publish in
>an open access journal" said Paul Peters, Hindawi's Head of
>Business Development. "Universities and other research
>organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of
>open access publishing, and this program will enable them to take
>an active role in moving from a subscription-based publication
>system to a system based on open access."
>
>Hindawi's membership program is based on a flat rate payment that
>covers all accepted articles that are submitted by an author from
>a member institute during the period of the membership. The cost
>of the membership depends on the level of research output of the
>institute and their historical publishing pattern in Hindawi
>journals. Anyone who would like to receive a quotation for their
>institute can do so by contacting memberships@hindawi.com.
>
>In order to help universities and other research organizations
>judge the level of participation of their researchers in Hindawi
>journals (whether as authors, editors, or reviewers), Hindawi has
>created institutional profile pages to showcase the output of an
>organization. The institutional web page of a particular
>institute can be accessed using a URL of the form
>"http://www.hindawi.com/institutions/domain/,"; where "domain" is
>the domain name of the particular institution. For example, the
>institutional web page for the University of California, Los
>Angeles is located at
>http://www.hindawi.com/institutions/ucla.edu/.
>
>In addition to the 125+ open access journals that Hindawi
>currently publishes, this membership will include any journal
>that is added to Hindawi's collection during the term of the
>membership.
>
>For more information please contact:
>
>Paul Peters
>Head of Business Development
>Hindawi Publishing Corporation
>paul.peters@hindawi.com