Not all academic societies with large publishing arms have their heads in the sand, nor are expecting the publishing income stream to continue to be a significant net revenue for long. As part of the ACM (*) for the last few years I have been raising OA issues, including the question of APCs. The response of the senior management, both appointed/employed and elected has been measured and reasonable. ACM is fully green-compliant, offers some interesting open access elements itself and has APCs of $1700 for non-members or $1300 for members of the ACM or a Special Interest Group (and since these memberships costs significantly less than $400 for the minimum and only one author needs to be a member, one would be foolish not to take a cheap membership if one insisted on paying for the hybrid Gold - although since ACM is Green that is paying for Fool's Gold). There are plans to reduce these prices over time, particularly as they can drive down their associated costs.
(*) for non-computer scientists, the Association for Computing Machinery, one of the largest computer societies in the world and together with the IEEE (which includes a Computer Society as a sub-unit) publish a large proportion of the journals and refereed conference proceedings that constitute the academic computer science literature. -- Professor Andrew A Adams [email protected] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
