Re: Potential positive spiral in transition to open access

[Peter Banks <pbanks@bankspub.com>]

David

Phys Rev Accelerators and Beams is one of 10 APS journals. I do 
not diminishits significance at all, but it hardly represents the 
society adopting openaccess as its business model. Nor does the 
"free to read" program, whichinvolves charges of $975 to $1300 to 
make an article openly available.

Many societies and publishers are experimenting with open access 
options,and so far the uptake in general is modest. Based on 
current experience, itis extremely doubtful that open access 
options are the pathway to replacingsubscriptions.

If there are societies who are committed to adopting open access 
as afundamental business model, I will stand corrected. Bring on 
the evidence.For the societies I consult with, it is barely on 
the radar.

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On 6/20/07 6:03 PM, "David Prosser" 
<david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear Peter
>
> You say that you do not know of 'a single major US nonprofit
> publisher who has or is considering an open access model'.
>
> Obviously, I don't know your definition of 'major', but the
> American Physical Society publishes the open access 'Physical
> Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beam'.  They also have
> their open access 'free to read' programme.
>
> PNAS has a hybrid 'author pays' open access option.  As does
> Plant Cell (from the American Society of Plant Biologists) - 
the
> primary research journal in plant biology with the highest 
impact
> factor.
>
> These are just off the top of my head and so apologies to the
> other organisations offering similar programmes.
>
> Best wishes
>
> David C Prosser PhD
> Director
> SPARC Europe
> E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk
>