[Air-l] Fwd: OSI welcomes publisher participation in BOAI (fwd)

[jeremy hunsinger]

I don't know who else in air-l follows the ongoing situation with 
journals and publishing, but this might be something some of you want to 
participate in.

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> From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Date: Fri Apr 12, 2002  10:06:39 AM US/Eastern
> To: VPIEJ-L at LISTSERV.VT.EDU
> Subject: OSI welcomes publisher participation in BOAI (fwd)
> Reply-To: Stevan Harnad <harnad at COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:57:33 +0100
> From: Melissa Hagemann <mhagemann at sorosny.org>
> Reply-To: September 1998 American Scientist Forum
>      <SEPTEMBER98-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
> To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> Subject: OSI welcomes publisher participation in BOAI
>
> OSI WELCOMES PUBLISHER PARTICIPATION IN BOAI
>
> April 12, 2002
>
> The Open Society Institute (OSI) has a long history of collaboration
> with academic publishers and is looking for participation by publishers
> in its latest major initiative, the Budapest Open Access Initiative
> (BOAI) http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
> One of the two strategic paths identified in the BOAI provides
> an opportunity for publishers to set up new electronic journals knowing
> that the open access vision behind BOAI is shared by academic
> communities across the globe.
>
> As a major part of the Initiative, OSI is working with publishers,
> business consultants, economists and librarians to develop model open
> access journal business plans. To support existing open access
> journals, OSI will provide funding for authors from over 65 developing
> countries to have their articles published in these journals; more
> details about the funding scheme will be announced soon.
>
> There is a special opportunity in BOAI for learned society publishers.
> A transition to open access publishing may be very beneficial to
> smaller societies facing the struggle to maintain journals from which
> they make insufficient money to move to electronic access. For larger
> publishers also, the BOAI strategy offers a dramatic increase in
> exposure for their journals and an opportunity to move away from an
> economic model that relies upon library subscriptions. It is the
> considered opinion of many in the publishing and library communities
> that the current economic model is unsustainable. Academic
> organisations and publishers must work together to prepare alternative
> economic models if the scholarly publishing system is to emerge from
> the deepening "serials crisis".
>
> Behind this thinking in BOAI there is a realisation that publishers
> contribute value to the access to research information. The academic
> world would be far poorer without the contribution of publishers. OSI
> wishes to work with publishers to retain their added value in new
> economic models that are viable and allow open access.
>
> For additional information on the BOAI, please contact Melissa
> Hagemann, mhagemann at sorosny.org.
>
> ----------------------
> NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free
> access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the
> American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01):
>     http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
>                             or
>     http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
>
> Discussion can be posted to:
>     september98-forum at amsci-forum.amsci.org
>
> See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
>     http://www.soros.org/openaccess
>
> and the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
>     http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
>
>
jeremy hunsinger
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