Re: PLoS Financial Analysis

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I feel an urge coming over me to defend an OA project which I shall not
resist. All "traditional" journal publishers know very well that launching
new journals, especially new journals with different models, is very
difficult. I suspect and to some extent I know that projections are almost
always over-optimistic.

One is almost always running several years behind projections. What is
important is to adjust to circumstances and that is exactly what PLOS is
doing. They are honest about it. I would suggest that if the trend in the
finances is going in the right direction there is a sustainable model here
even if PLOS are not yet where they predicted that they would be.

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Walters" <William.Walters@millersville.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:17 AM
Subject: PLoS Financial Analysis


> See http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060619/full/441914a.html for
> news of financial difficulties at PLoS and for more detailed
> information about their revenue sources than I've seen anywhere
> else.
>
> Bill
>
> William H. Walters, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Librarianship
> Collection Development Librarian
> Helen A. Ganser Library
> Millersville University
> Millersville, PA 17551-0302
>