Re: OA monograph publishing

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

The latest good news/bad news about OA monograph publishing: 
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6715759.html?nid=2673&source=title&rid=17181909

With costs for publishing OA articles ranging up to $5,000, would 
it be too much to ask funders/universities/authors to pay $10,000 
to cover the deficit for a typical OA monograph?

Note that this model (for Penn State Press anyway) still depends 
on a revenue stream to pay part of the costs, and that the 
monograph can be read in its entirety online but only about half 
can be downloaded and printed out.  So it is a partial OA model.

I daresay that this would not be viable under a mandate from the 
NEH to deposit a peer-reviewed copy of the monograph on a federal 
web site (in the manner of NIH).

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press

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