Modèle économique

« Knowledge Exchange (KE) invites any platforms working in open access, publishing and communication who wishes to be included in a KE taxomomy of Alternative Publishing Platforms to answer this call for entries.

The call is part of a

« An introduction to the project DIAMAS, aimed at investigating and supporting “diamond” open access publishing models, i.e. free for the reader as well as the author (no publishing charges). An ultimate goal of the three-year project is to foster high-quality diamond publishing by setting up a Europe-wide capacity center. (…) »

« The starting point for this post is an article from Scholarly Kitchen in which, once again, the sustainability of Diamond journals and here the Subscribe to Open model, is questioned. This leads the author, Rick Anderson, to define sustainability:
“It’s a concept that gets invoked in…

« This is an independent expert study commissioned in the context of the ERA to support the future development of Open Research Europe (ORE), the European Commission open access publishing platform, as a collective pan-European publishing initiative supported by funders and institutions across Europe. The study focuses on the business…

« Since its launch in 2019, ROR has been charting a unique path toward sustainability. In this blog post, we want to provide an update for the community on where this path is taking us.
Journey to sustainability
In response to ROR’s growing needs and in anticipation of future…

« Open access (OA) journals are academic, peer-reviewed journals that are free and available for anyone to read without paying subscription fees. To make up for lost subscription revenue, many journals instead charge author fees to researchers who wish to publish in them. These fees can reach thousands…

« In 2020 we estimate the annual revenues from article processing charges (APCs) among major scholarly journal publishers to have exceeded 2 billion US dollars. Alongside these revenues, a pattern of mergers and takeovers in the industry indicate that publishers find APCs to be an even more profitable business model than…

« (…) That report describes a variation on the journal ‘Subscribe to Open’ model whereby members ‘subscribe to a backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible’. This constitutes a new business model for OA monographs that had not previously been implemented. We implemented this model, dubbed…

« A study of the costs incurred by university presses in publishing scholarly monographs through the TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) pilot project. Researchers received data from 15 publishers on 57 TOME titles published through mid-2021. This report will be incorporated into a full assessment of the TOME pilot. (…) »

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