Re: Open Access Publishing Funding Models

[Brian Simboli <brs4@lehigh.edu>]

Re. below, how many are funded via print subscription sales, I wonder, or
by societies that have decided to devote membership fees to this (as
opposed to using publication revenue, derived from library and individual
subscriptions, to fund other society functions)? Brian Simboli

Sally Morris (ALPSP) wrote:

> We hope, as a result of our ongoing research, to get a clear idea of
> exactly how many of the 1200-odd journals in the DOAJ are 'author' funded.  
> I suspect that it's a considerable minority but await the facts.
>
> The question then arises - how are the rest supported?  Some, of course,
> have explicit grants from third parties and/or from their own
> institutions. Many more, however, I would guess, are 'invisibly' supported
> by their institutions through not being explicitly charged for the labour,
> accommodation and computer capacity for which the institution is paying.
> These things may feel free, but of course they are not
>
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