Re: Springer blasts Open Choice criticism

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

I think you've missed the point about publishers' costs.  They are mostly
to do with people, not software

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: Springer blasts Open Choice criticism

> Perhaps Springer should have a lot at ICAAP - the International Coalition
> for the Advancement of Academic Publication, at Athabasca University:
> http://bluesky.icaap.org/journallist.php?show=isproduced, and rethink
> their pricing strategy.
>
> ICAAP provides free, open-source software for open access journal
> publishing.  For those who prefer support, however, this is available at
> the cost-recovery rate of $3,000 Cdn (about $2,300 U.S.) per journal, per
> year.  Just so this is clear:  this is $2,300 U.S. for journal production
> for a whole year.  This is not a subscription price.
>   This is not a per-article price.
>
> In other words, any university looking to pay the Springer Open Choice fee
> who have faculty who might publish in a discipline once a year or so, it
> would be more cost-effective to start a new journal instead. No doubt the
> $700 U.S. remaining would come in handy to hire some copyediting
> assistance.
>
> Another way to look at this:  Mike Sosteric, a faculty member at
> Athabasca, in addition to his teaching duties, manages 8 journals for
> Athabasca U., and 12 journals for others.  With a little funding, Mike
> figures he could do more.  For more information about ICAAP, contact Mike
> Sosteric at http://bluesky.icaap.org/journallist.php?show=isproduced
>
> It might be of interest that there are people in New York who are writing
> journals about Africa, which are published through ICAAP, on a server in
> Northern Alberta.  Since this is an international coalition, I'm sure that
> ICAAP would be quite happy to publish journals written by folks in Africa
> about the U.S., should anyone in Africa feel an inclination in this
> direction.  :)
>
> cheers,
>
> Heather Morrison