How can you make your journal more accessible

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How can you make your journal more accessible?
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Shareholders Societies
Publishers
Profit

Funders' mission? No money for peer review or to
author
Free
Libraries
Researchers
Free


Gov / ngo funding
From Robert Terry Wellcome Trust
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You can make a difference!

• As
• Author
• Editor
• Reviewer
• Member of a learned society

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1. Reasonable price?

• Investigate if your journals are reasonably
  priced.
• Tool
• Bergstrom-McAfees Journal cost-effectiveness
  search
• And/or your own investigations

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Journal Cost-Effectiveness. 2006
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2.If the price is unreasonably high

• As author if possible, send your paper to an
  equal but more reasonably priced journal
• As reviewer/editor Contact the publisher and ask
  for a more reasonable quote
• As a society member try to change your society's
  pricing policy

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3. If none of the above helps

• As society
• Change to publisher with a more reasonable
  pricing policy
• Investigate the possibilities of making the
  journal Open Access
• As editor/editorial board
• Start an alternative journal

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4. Making a journal Open Access examples

• Publish your journal with an existing
  OA-publisher (BioMed Central , Hindawi,
  Linköping University Electronic Press )
• Use an OA-journal web hotel service (Simon Fraser
  University Library , Scholarly Exchange ).
• Set up and run your own system from scratch

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Things to keep in mind

• Indexing/visibility (DOAJ )
• Long-term preservation
• Permanent links (DOI)

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Business models

• Publishing fee - reader has free access
• Costs are payed by the institutions that do the
  research
• Subventions no costs for author or reader