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Re: Update from Multi-Science Publishing
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- Subject: Re: Update from Multi-Science Publishing
- From: "Pippa Smart" <pippa.smart@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:45:43 EDT
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The Knowledge-Exchange is a very interesting and innovative consortial arrangement - but I must stress that it is NOT Open Access. It is traditional subscriber-pays access - but in this case the subscriber is not an individual library or institution, but a larger group of institutions and libraries. Becoming part of KE does not make any publishers' content free to individuals/institutions outside the consortia. At any institution, individual access is free at point of use if the institution has paid for access - the same is true with KE. Pippa Smart Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting - www.pspconsulting.org Skype: pippasmart pippa.smart@gmail.com **** 2008/8/29 Hildegard Schaeffler <schaeffler@bsb-muenchen.de>: > Dear colleagues, > > For more background information on the Knowledge Exchange tender > please see http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=227 > > Best regards > > Hildegard Schaeffler (on behalf of the KE licensing working group) > > --------------------------------------- > Dr. Hildegard Schaeffler > Bayerische Staatsbibliothek > Leitung Referat > Zeitschriften und Elektronische Medien / > Head of Serials and Electronic Media > D-80328 Muenchen > E-mail: hildegard.schaeffler@bsb-muenchen.de > --------------------------------------- > > > "Okerson, Ann" <ann.okerson@yale.edu> 29.08.08 04:12 >>> > Through the transom and of possible interest. Anyone know more > about the European Knowledge Exchange Project? > > ______________________________________________________ > > From: Paul Bailey [mailto:paul@multi-science.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:23 AM > To: librarians@scholarlycommunication.org > Subject: RE: News from Multi-Science Publishing > > Dear Colleague, > > As a publisher, I have a keen interest in Open Access - at one > level, the more people who see my content and can make use of it, > the better. However, I have little faith in the presently mooted > ways forward for Open Access. 'Author Pays' will not work; > funding by philanthropic bodies fails the necessary long term > test; as does the concept of setting up countless 'alternative' > OA journals. Here, I want to describe a promising initiative we > are engaged with, and to outline a way of quickly going much > further. > > We have been invited to participate in Knowledge Exchange (see > www.knowledge-exchange.info) which is a consortium venture > between the national libraries of Germany, Denmark, the > Netherlands and the UK, whereby our content - having been > validated by Knowledge Exchange - is being offered to all the > universities in those countries, under the terms of Knowledge > Exchange's licence, which is devised with the universities > interests at heart, of course. Some countries will provide the > content to the universities in their country by means of a > national licence; others will provide matching funds for those > universities which decide to opt-in. Not only does the licence > protect the universities position, the pricing structure is > extremely favourable: under some scenarios the > price/journal/institution/year is about $25! > > So, its quite a good OA start, to make our content available to > all those universities, and higher education institutions, at > such an eminently affordable price. > > But we would like to go a lot further, partly from OA enthusiasm, > and partly because so much of our content is essentially applied > science and potentially has a much wider audience than university > researchers. > > Ideally, we would like to see national licences, perhaps > organised and funded by a country's national library (or national > digital library) so that any national of that country can access > our content, at no cost at the point of use: free to users, in > short. This is technically straightforward; the licence cost will > be affordable. Most importantly, as trail blazing deals are made > between Multi-Science and progressive national bodies, other > publishers will feel the commercial need to follow, which opens > up the possibility of countries acquiring vast amounts of > excellent information, at negligible cost, for the benefit of all > their citizens. > > You can find out more about our company and publications at > www.multi-science.co.uk and you can see specimens of content, > tables of contents, abstracts, at > www.ingentaconnect.com.content/mscp > > I hope this is of interest, and would be pleased to hear any > comments you might have. If you personally are in a position to > drive matters forward, do please contact me; feel free to forward > this message to colleagues who may also be interested. > > Best wishes > W Hughes > Director > Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd
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