Fytton Rowland: > > Indian OA journals have been mentioned here before. > > Where does the external funding come from?
Vinod Scaria: > Funding comes from the supporting organisation/institution. This is a > not-for profit endeavour and what we aim is better visibility/impact to > papers from respective institutions without placing the burden on the > authors (Most of the authors do not have external funding). David Goodman: > > In fact, payment for the production of journals is I think one very > > desirable option, especially in those places where the funding for > > the scientific research is also centralized. Essentially, when in > > the US the NSF funds scientific research, it should be implicitedly > > funding the distribution of the results. Vinod Scaria: > This *should* be the publishing option where Research funding is meagre, > most research publications are not funded by an external source. The > majority of our authors are not funded. These Journals are not-for profit > ones and funded by not-for profit organisations/Institutions. I suspect this is true of the majority of journals in the Lund list, in that the costs of staff time, computer capacity and other overheads are ignored/absorbed by the home institution. Is it, however, an approach which is scaleable for the literature as a whole? Sally Morris, Chief Executive Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: +44 (0)1903 871686 Fax: +44 (0)1903 871457 E-mail: [email protected] ALPSP Website http://www.alpsp.org Scholarship-Friendly Publishing - 20th International Learned Journals Seminar, 26th March - see http://www.alpsp.org/events/s260304.htm
