Scholarly Exchange is a new, low-cost publishing platform for ejournals. It's not open-source, but the overall cost is so low that it could easily support OA journals. From today's press release:
The fully configurable software platform, hosted and supported, enables scholars, societies, and publishers to create scholarly publications for fixed annual fees ranging from $750 to $1500. It is a cost-effective gathering point, where knowledge is collected, evaluated, and then shared - without the expense and restrictions of traditional journal publishers. SE offers a readily affordable pathway for even the smallest societies and groups to exchange and distribute knowledge. Scholarly Exchange plays no role in the creation of the information or its ultimate ownership, only in the sharing of the highest quality of scholarship as determined by the scholars who produce it. SE is not a publisher in the traditional sense but more a facilitator of the global academic forum of ideas. Under the 'sustainable support' model, groups of scholars, their societies, or publishers may create new publications or migrate existing ones. With guidance from Scholarly Exchange, they can register their journal or conference, configure the website to their needs, collect and peer-review content, make editorial decisions, display accepted articles, and export both content and metadata to a variety of database formats for storage elsewhere. Given the way in which the scholarly content is stored, it can readily be re-formulated for presentation as printed-and-bound volumes or as CD/DVD-based materials....Scholarly Exchange is an IRS-registered 501 (c) (3) public charity corporation with offices in Brookline, MA, Cupertino, CA, and Edmonton, AB.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/17/2005 11:02:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
