| id |
107_elpub2012 |
| authors |
Mounier, Pierre |
| year |
2012 |
| title |
Freemium as a sustainable economic model for open access electronic publishing in humanities and social sciences |
| source |
ELPUB2012. Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the interplay between Culture and Technology, 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 14-15 June 2012, Guimarães, Portugal. |
| summary |
Between the two paths of open access - green and gold - the later is the harder to develop and has the less support from the research community. The main difficulty is about finding a sound economic model. Open Access journals usually depend on two funding sources: subsidies and/or donations from institutions and publication fees from research units in the authors-pay model. These two ways of funding open access journals and books proved effective in some cases (Plos), but are not flawless. The Center for Open Electronic Publishing, a french initiative for open access publishing in humanities and social sciences, has recently developed a new economic model based on “freemium” for its full open access journals and books series, in order to address two issues: improve their economical soundness and give them more visibility in libraries. Freemium, the contraction of “free” and “premium”, preserves open access to information together with the marketing of premium services. |
| keywords |
open access, humanities, social sciences, freemium, economic models |
| series |
ELPUB:2012 |
| type |
normal paper |
| content |
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| urn:nbn |
urn:nbn:se:elpub-107_elpub2012 |
| last changed |
2012/06/02 12:35 |
