R: Revoked Open Access?

["Enrico M. Balli" <enrico@medialab.sissa.it>]

Dear Sandy,

I'm not sure I understood correctly your question, but will try
anyway to answer. If you follow the link to our OA policy, you
can easily see how much is the cost of our Journals. I'm not sure
it can be compared to the cost of "more research, more
conferences", but for sure it cannot be compared to the cost of
subscription of competing journals.

Enrico M. Balli
Sissa Medialab

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] Per conto di Sandy Thatcher
Inviato: martedi 14 ottobre 2008 1.33
A: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Oggetto: Re: Revoked Open Access?

What are the "opportunity costs" of the funds provided by "the major
institutions active in particle physics"? I.e., is they were not being used
to pay OA fees, would they be used to support more research, more
conferences, or what? One cannot truly evaluate the benefits of OA unless
one knows what the alternative uses of the funds might be.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State Press

>Dear Ian,
>
>Thanks for the nice comments on JHEP.
>
>The Journal of High Energy Physics was born back in 1997, as a
>"Community Journal". It was probably a little bit too early to be
>successful with such a "naive" business model, and the alliance with
>IOP Publishing was then necessary to the survival of the Journal.
>
>Almost two years ago we launched a new hybrid Open Access initiative
>called the Institutional Membership Fee
>(http://jhep.sissa.it/jhep/docs/SISSA_IOP_OA_proposal.pdf)
>together with IOPP. This initiative proved to be successful: some 20%
>of the papers published in JHEP are now Open Access, thanks to the
>support of some of the major institutions active in particle physics.
>This business model offers an Open Access alternative at a very low
>cost, often comparable to the cost of a subscription.
>
>Since the launch of the OA initiative, JHEP increased its share of HEP
>publishing from 15% to 25% (Robert Aymar, Scholarly communication in
>high-energy physics: Past, present and future innovations,
>CERN-OPEN-2008-015, to appear in European Review.
>http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/other/generic/public/cer-0007003
>29.pdf), a result that clearly shows the advantage of OA publishing.
>
>JINST, a sibling Journal jointly published by Sissa and IOPP, has an
>even higher percentage of Open Access papers, including the recently
>published complete scientific documentation of the CERN Large Hadron
>Collider (LHC) machine and detectors
>(http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page-Dextra.lhc/jinst). 
JINST has been
>singled out by CERN for this publication thanks to the many advantages
>that this model offer to the community: High Quality, Open Access,
>no-author-fees and low cost.
>
>Best regards,
>Enrico
>
>-----Messaggio originale-----
>Da: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] Per conto di Ian Russell
>RE: Revoked Open Access?
>
>Journal of High Energy Physics was published as a free to authors and
>free to readers publication by SISSA (the International School for
>Advanced Studies).  This became financially unsustainable and the
>journal was then co-published with the Institute of Physics Publishing
>under a subscription model.  I understand that there is now the option
>of paying an 'institutional membership fee' which entitles readers in
>that institution to access all articles in the journal regardless of
>the status of the paper, and authors in that institution to publish
>articles on author pays Open Access terms. These articles are therefore
>made freely available to the entire world. There is a commitment to
>guarantee Open Access to these articles in future years.
>
>Ian Russell, ALPSP