[IP-OA_Forum] Social Sciences Directory - UK consortium agreement to support open access publishing

["Dan Scott" <dan.scott@socialsciencesdirectory.com>]

Dear Sir or Madam

 

Apologies for cross-posting and I hope you are well.

 

I am writing with information about a provisional agreement that has been with Eduserv to offer an affordable institutional membership to Social Sciences Directory, a new web-based open access publishing platform. We would be delighted to offer something similar for your consortia’s members.

 

Social Sciences Directory (www.socialsciencesdirectory.com @SocSciDirectory) is aimed at the global academic research and higher education market. It is an online database of academic research and other content, such as presentations, interviews and news reports, as well as providing discussion forums through social media including blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. It will operate on an author pays model but with the option of institutional membership for all their staff and researchers to submit articles freely.

 

Eduserv is seeking expressions of interest in institutional membership at a discounted fee for an 18 month period to encourage submissions and support this open access model which is widely supported in STM but little known in the Social Sciences area.

 

How the Eduserv Chest Agreement will work

To start the ball rolling and to encourage authors to submit quality content quickly the Institutional Membership Fee has been substantially discounted. The fee will be £1,800 covering the period from 1 July 2012 to 31 December 2013 – the current annual membership fee is £2,000/US$3,000/€2,400 for 12 months. If 10 institutions take up this offer the agreement will go ahead.

 

If this is of interest, please contact me and I would be happy to discuss it further.

 

Yours faithfully

Dan Scott MA, BA (Hons)

Director

Social Sciences Directory Limited

T: +44 (0)1423 326 257

M: +44 (0)770 381 2042

 

www.socialsciencesdirectory.com

READ IT. WRITE IT. CITE IT.

 

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