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["Franziska Stoeckle" <stoeckle@ub.tum.de>]

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Learned Publishing launches trial ?Open Access? option

 

For Immediate Release ? 30th July 2007 

 

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers 
(ALPSP),
publisher of Learned Publishing ? the leading journal on scholarly 
and
professional publishing ? announces a hybrid ?Open Access? option 
whereby
authors can choose to make their articles freely available online
immediately on publication, on payment of a fee.

 

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers 
(ALPSP,
http://www.alpsp.org), publisher of Learned Publishing ? the leading 
journal
on scholarly and professional publishing ? announces the launch of 
?ALPSP
Author Choice?, an optional Open Access model whereby authors can 
choose to
make the online version of their article freely available to all 
immediately
on publication. The fee for this optional service is £1,250/$2,500 
for
members of ALPSP and the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and
£1,500/$3,000 for non-members. ?ALPSP Author Choice? is being 
launched on a
trial basis by ALPSP, the international association for non-profit
publishers and those who work with them. The first article to be 
published
under the new service appeared in the July 2007 issue of the journal
(Volume 20, No 3), and is entitled ?Going all the way: how Hindawi 
became an
open access publisher? by Paul Peters (http://dx.doi.org/
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X204049> 
10.1087/095315107X204049). 

Learned Publishing already provides ?Delayed Open Access?: all papers 
can be
accessed free of charge 12 months after publication. The journal is 
also
freely accessible to all ALPSP and SSP members, and to participants 
in the
HINARI and AGORA projects.

The new open access option is being tested by ALPSP to see if it 
provides a
viable way of sustaining the costs of peer review, editing and other 
aspects
of journal publication.

ALPSP?s CEO, Ian Russell, said today: ?Many of the over 350 members 
of ALPSP
are trialling open access business models for their journals. We have 
always
supported the need for serious debate backed by experimentation in 
order to
help determine the effects, both positive and negative, of Open 
Access.  We
see this initiative as a useful way of establishing if an author-side
payment choice can be viable for a journal such as Learned 
Publishing, which
currently involves a combination of subscription, advertising, and
membership income to support its publication.? 

The Editor-in-Chief of Learned Publishing, Sally Morris, commented:  
?Our
journal carries many articles reflecting the great interest in the 
topic of
Open Access.  I am delighted that our publisher feels able to test 
the water
itself, by launching an ?Open Access choice? for our own authors.  We 
shall
be monitoring authors? responses with close interest.?

The ?ALPSP Author Choice' service is being offered on a trial basis 
that
will run for 12 months, before being reviewed by ALPSP Council, at 
which
point the current subscription rates will also be considered.

 

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Notes for editors

 

About Learned Publishing

Learned Publishing (http://www.learned-publishing.org
<http://www.learned-publishing.org/> ) is the leading journal on 
scholarly
and professional publishing, carrying research articles, case studies 
and
informed opinion.  It was first published in 1988; it is published
quarterly. It is published by the Association of Learned and 
Professional
Society Publishers (ALPSP; www.alpsp.org <http://www.alpsp.org/> ) in
cooperation with the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP; 
www.sspnet.org
<http://www.sspnet.org/> ). The current Editor-in-Chief is Sally 
Morris; the
North American Editor is Priscilla Markwood.

About the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers 
(ALPSP;
www.alpsp.org) is the only international trade association 
representing all
types of non-profit publishers as well as the largest trade 
association for
scholarly and professional publishers. It has over 350 members in 36
countries, who collectively publish over 10,000 journals ? around 
half the
world?s total - as well as books, databases and other products and 
services.

 

ALPSP's mission is to play an active part in shaping the future of 
academic
and professional communication, promoting '
<http://www.alpsp.org/ForceDownload.asp?id=126> Scholarship-Friendly
Publishing'. At this time of unprecedented change in the publishing
environment, we believe that non-profit publishers have a unique role 
to
play.  We therefore aim to serve, represent and strengthen the 
community of
non-profit publishers, and those who work with them.

 

Media Contacts 

Ian Russell

Chief Executive

ian.russell@alpsp.org

+44 (0)1275 856 444

 

Nick Evans

Publisher

nick.evans@alpsp.org

+44 (0)208 789 2394

 

Sally Morris

Editor-in-Chief

editor@alpsp.org

+44 (0)1903 876 286 

 

 

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