Blackwell Offers Open Access Plan at a cost of $2500 per Published Article
Excerpt: "Blackwell Publishing, the leading publisher of society journals, has announced an open access publishing experiment, Online Open, to operate through 2006. Like Springer's Open Choice program, announced last year (see News, LJ 8/04, p. 16ff.), Blackwell's plan will create a hybrid system, in which open access articles are included in print subscription journals, with subscription prices adjusted, and Online Open articles will be freely available via the publisher's online journals platform, Blackwell Synergy.
During the trial period, the Online Open fee will be fixed at $2500 or £1250. Blackwell officials say that Online Open submissions will be treated in the same way as any other article. Unlike Springer's Open Choice program, however, authors participating in Blackwell's Online Open program will not be required to sign over copyright to their articles, a key issue to supporters of open access.
"We expect the medical and biology journals to be involved in the trial, subjects where there is likely funding for 'author pays,'" said Dawn Peters, Blackwell public relations manager. The $2500 fee—less than Springer's $3000 and more than pioneering open access publishers Public Library of Science ($1500) and BioMed Central ($525)—is also experimental. "The fee is only a figure for the trial," Peters said. "It is not based on cost, but at $2500 it is within what some funding bodies have indicated they are prepared to pay."
Source: Andrew Albanese. Blackwell Offers Open Access Plan. Library Journal (1 April 2005) [FullText] [OANews Record]
During the trial period, the Online Open fee will be fixed at $2500 or £1250. Blackwell officials say that Online Open submissions will be treated in the same way as any other article. Unlike Springer's Open Choice program, however, authors participating in Blackwell's Online Open program will not be required to sign over copyright to their articles, a key issue to supporters of open access.
"We expect the medical and biology journals to be involved in the trial, subjects where there is likely funding for 'author pays,'" said Dawn Peters, Blackwell public relations manager. The $2500 fee—less than Springer's $3000 and more than pioneering open access publishers Public Library of Science ($1500) and BioMed Central ($525)—is also experimental. "The fee is only a figure for the trial," Peters said. "It is not based on cost, but at $2500 it is within what some funding bodies have indicated they are prepared to pay."
Source: Andrew Albanese. Blackwell Offers Open Access Plan. Library Journal (1 April 2005) [FullText] [OANews Record]
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