[GOAL] Re: [SCHOLCOMM] The Open Access Interviews: F1000 Founder Vitek Tracz

[Richard Poynder]

Dear Thomas,

Thank you for the feedback. I apologise if my message read like an
advertisement. But can I ask that you read the Q (along with my commentary
here: http://richardpoynder.co.uk/Tracz_Interview.pdf) before passing
judgement. If you were able to find time to do that I would hope you would
see what it has to do with open access, and I would hope you would be able
to conclude that my purpose was not to advertise F1000, but to discuss the
issues.

Best wishes,


Richard


-Original Message-
From: Thomas Krichel [mailto:kric...@openlib.org] 
Sent: 21 September 2015 12:54
To: Richard Poynder 
Cc: ACRL Scholarly Communication List ; Global Open
Access List 
Subject: Re: [SCHOLCOMM] The Open Access Interviews: F1000 Founder Vitek
Tracz

  Richard Poynder writes

> A Q with Tracz is available here:
>
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-open-access-interviews-f1000.html

  This reads like an advertizing piece for ft1000. And since that
  is a subscription service, I wonder what it has to do with 
  open access?

-- 

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
  skype:thomaskrichel

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[GOAL] The Open Access Interviews: F1000 Founder Vitek Tracz

[Richard Poynder]

Vitek Tracz is a hero of the open access movement, and it is not hard to see
why. Fifteen years ago he founded the world's first for-profit OA publisher
BioMed Central (BMC), and pioneered pay-to-publish gold OA. Instead of
charging readers a downstream subscription fee, BMC levies an upfront
article-processing charge, or APC. By doing so it is able to cover its costs
at the time of publication, and so make the papers it publishes freely
available on the Internet.

 

Many said Tracz's approach would not work. But despite initial scepticism
BMC eventually convinced other publishers that it had a sustainable business
model, and so encouraged them to put their toes in the OA waters too. As
such, OA advocates believe BMC was vital to the success of open access. As
Peter Murray-Rust put it in 2010, "Without Vitek and BMC we would not have
open access".

 

Today Tracz has a new, more radical, mission, which he is pursuing with
F1000.

 

A Q with Tracz is available here:
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-open-access-interviews-f1000.html

 

A commentary on the issues arising from the interview is separately
available here: http://richardpoynder.co.uk/Tracz_Interview.pdf

 

Richard Poynder

 

 

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