RE: Palgrave Macmillan launch Open Access initiative

["Ingle, Laura" <L.Ingle@palgrave.com>]

Rebecca,

As Charlene is out of the office I thought I would reply in her 
stead.

Not enough is known about the potential for funding of OA 
articles in the social sciences, across the globe. Palgrave Open 
is in part an experiment, from which we hope to learn more about 
this sector. It is a good thing if we are helping to generate 
debate and discussion.

Pricing is one of the most significant and challenging elements 
of this exercise. We have carefully assessed the cost of 
producing article pages across the journals which are a part of 
Palgrave Open. We have also reviewed existing hybrid models, most 
being in STM, but by no means all. As we noted in our first 
announcement, we also have to produce scaleable and sustainable 
OA models.

The likelihood is that take-up will be light in the short term, 
but we believe that this reflects the uncertainties around and 
awareness of funding first and foremost, rather than pricing. And 
this said, there are already articles in process and a first 
article published at the time of launch.

At this stage there are no further announcements to make about 
any subsidization of APCs. We will however be taking on board all 
comments, which will not only inform the evolution of Palgrave 
Open, but also our wider OA thinking and plans.

With thanks,
Laura
____________________________________________
Laura Ingle
Journals Product Manager
Palgrave Macmillan
l.ingle@palgrave.com

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Rebecca Kennison
Sent: 23 June 2011 02:29
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Subject: Re: Palgrave Macmillan launch Open Access initiative

Charlene,

Since Palgrave is one of the few publishers to extend this hybrid 
model of OA publishing to the social sciences, I think we on this 
list would be grateful for more details, if you can offer them. 
In particular, I was wondering whether you might explain how 
Palgrave came up with the pricing for your hybrid open-access 
offering. Did your society partners feel their members and 
authors could afford to pay the $2400? Was their any discussion 
about their willingness to subsidize those members who might want 
to take this option but cannot afford the APC? Or are you 
expecting there to be very little take-up of this offer unless 
the author's institution is willing to pay for such charges? I 
know my own institution's OA fund does not pay for hybrid OA, so 
am interested in knowing what options my authors might have 
should they be interested (as I'm sure many of them would be) in 
making their work OA under the terms of Palgrave Open.

Best regards,
Rebecca Kennison

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Holyhead, Charlene
<c.holyhead@palgrave.com
> wrote:

> Palgrave Macmillan launch initiative offering Open Access
> publishing to scholars in the social sciences
>
> Palgrave Macmillan today announces the launch of Palgrave Open
> (www.palgrave-journals.com/palgraveopen/) offering authors of
> accepted primary research papers the option to publish their
> articles with immediate open access.
>
> Working in collaboration with scholarly institutions and learned
> society partners, Palgrave Macmillan has selected eighteen
> journals to offer Open Access at launch:
>
> *BioSocieties
> *British Politics
> *Comparative European Politics
> *Contemporary Political Theory
> *European Journal of Development Research
> *French Politics
> *International Politics
> *Journal of Asset Management
> *Journal of Brand Management
> *Journal of Banking Regulation
> *Journal of Derivatives & Hedge Funds
> *Journal of International Business Studies
> *Journal of Public Health Policy
> *Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
> *Journal of Simulation
> *OR Insight
> *Social Theory & Health
> *Subjectivity
>
> David Bull, Journals Publishing Director at Palgrave Macmillan,
> says: "Palgrave Open is a timely and exciting initiative for the
> social sciences, a sector that has not hitherto found itself
> significantly involved with open access models. We're now taking
> a lead in presenting our communities with an alternative
> publishing model, to sit beside our existing subscription and
> site license business. It is important that we are at the
> forefront of exploring scaleable and sustainable publishing
> solutions in the digital age. Over the next 18 months we will
> carefully assess and review the impact and operation of Palgrave
> Open."
>
> Authors can choose to publish their article Open Access under one
> of two Creative Commons licenses and Palgrave Open's publishing
> policies ensure that authors can fully comply with the public
> access requirements of major funding bodies worldwide.
>
> The first article to be published via Palgrave Open, 'Creating
> the 'ethics industry': Mary Warnock, in vitro fertilization and
> the history of bioethics in Britain' by Duncan Wilson, University
> of Manchester, UK, is now freely available in the June issue of
> BioSocieties.
>
> Palgrave Open: www.palgrave-journals.com/palgraveopen/
>
> BioSocieties: www.palgrave-journals.com/biosoc/
>
> About Palgrave Macmillan
>
> Palgrave Macmillan is a global publisher, serving learning and
> scholarship in higher education and the professional world. We
> have an established and distinguished track record in
> international academic publishing with considerable strengths in
> the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business. Our academic
> publishing programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs,
> professional and reference works in print and online. Palgrave
> Macmillan represents an unbroken tradition of 150 years of
> independent publishing, continually reinventing itself for the
> future. For more information, please visit www.palgrave.com
>
> For further information please contact:
>
> Charley Holyhead
> Head of Scholarly Marketing
> c.holyhead@palgrave.com