RE: Funding OA (Long-Term)

["Sally Morris \(Morris Associates\)" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

We'll shortly be publishing a review article by Don King, which 
may help to dispel some of the myths about 'cheap' journal 
publishing

Sally Morris
Editor, Learned Publishing
South House, The Street
Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Ann Okerson
Sent: 07 February 2007 23:55
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Funding OA (Long-Term)

Mr. Krichel:  Could you kindly explain further your message i.e., 
how it is responsive to the inquiry about long-term open access 
funding for high quality, peer reviewed journals?  My point was 
that libraries (particularly the larger ones) are more and more 
being asked to contribute significant sums of money for ongoing 
support, once OA projects have passed startup funding, and that 
doesn't seem to me a secure source of revenue.  To wit, since 
access is free, the incentives to keep paying are not high and 
the financial underpinnings thus become vulnerable.

You replied that publishers need to change their journals 
platforms to less costly ones and get free Web hosting somewhere. 
Many small (and larger) publishers have already done exactly 
that.  And, while reasonable, the suggestion doesn't provide much 
help for the publishers of quality titles, as the rest of their 
non-trivial costs remain to be covered.  Ann Okerson

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