Andrew Albanese, BioMed Central Changes Pricing, Library Journal, October 15, 2004. Excerpt: "After receiving significant feedback from the academic library community, open access publisher BioMed Central (BMC) announced that it was reversing its decision to alter its institutional membership model for 2005. In early 2004, BMC announced that its institutional memberships for 2005 would be renewed calculated on an estimated 'per article published' basis....[The original] model, however, produced 'unfair side effects,' according to BMC officials, who noted that some institutions' faculty simply published more than others. Librarians, however, voiced concern over the proposed BMC plan for 2005, saying that a membership fee on a per article published basis would essentially shift the publication costs of researchers to the library --not something libraries' fixed budgets were well suited to handle."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/14/2004 09:33:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
