[IP-OA_Forum] Forum of Mathematics - Zwei neue OA-Journals bei CUP

[Christian Gutknecht <christian.gutknecht@hbz.uzh.ch>]

Timothy Gowers, welcher mit seinem offenen Blogpost den kürzlichen Boykott gegen Elsevier ins Rollen gebracht hatte, ist nun bei der Gründung zweier neuer OA-Journals bei Cambridge University Press involviert. Die beiden Journals Pi und Sigma (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialPage?pageId=3896) sollen über moderate APCs von £500/$750 fianziert werden. Für die ersten drei Jahren ist die Bezahlung der APC freiwillig (was andere schon dazu gebracht hat dieses Modell diamond open access zu nennen).

Gowers führt in einem langem aber interessanten Blogpost (http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/a-new-open-access-venture-from-cambridge-university-press/) seine Gedanken dazu aus. Auch wenn er den Impact auf das von ihm kritisierte akademische Publizieren eher klein einschätzt, sieht er doch einige Chancen durch diese neuen Open Access Journals:

For one thing, it will demonstrate that a major publishing house can produce a high-quality journal with high-quality formatting and editing with APCs of around £500. I hope that people in charge of funding bodies who are considering open-access mandates will ask some tough questions of publishers who continue to charge four times that.

Secondly, if the Forum of Mathematics is successful, it has the potential to reduce the quality of a number of other journals, which will at least strengthen the hand of librarians who are bargaining with publishers like Elsevier (because cancelling their subscriptions won’t cause quite the inconvenience that it would at the moment).

Auch ruft er die mathematische Community zur Unterstützung auf:

So I urge you to support the Forum of Mathematics. If you’ve got a good paper, then why not hold on to it until 1st October and submit it to us? If the Forum of Mathematics takes off, then you will be able to look back with pride and say that your paper was one of the very first — who knows, perhaps even the first — to appear in it. If your department has not yet thought about author charges, then another thing you can do is initiate a discussion about those — something I plan to do in Cambridge — since, as I said above, any author fees that are paid voluntarily during the first three years will help keep the fees lower later on and increase the chances that the venture will be a success, which in turn will raise the prospect of saving a lot of money in the longer term.

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