Presentation for the EAEPE conference 2013 Bobigny

1. Pierre Mounier – EAEPE 2013 - Bobigny
Academic Journals : old and new
business models

3. Shifting from old to new business model
Subscription model : readers
(libraries) pay
Open access model : authors
(institutions) pay

4. Incentives
• Print and digital: from
high marginal
distribution costs to high
fixed publication costs
• Serials crisis and the
libraries mutiny
• Development of
succesful Gold Open
Access models

5. Plos
The perfect « pay to say » model

6. • Article
processing
charge
• Flat
charge
Platinum (Diamond) journals…..
• Double
dipping ?
Gold Journals………………….
• Moving
wall
• Fully
restricted
Hybrid journals…….…………..
Paywall journals ………………..
Diversity of business models
• Fully
funded
• Freemium

7. Our experience with OpenEdition

10. « too successful » open access journals
for full institutional up front funding

11. « Too big to work ? » : about the
transition costs to gold APC model
• June 2012 : « Finch report » evaluated the transition cost to
£50-60 million a year on top of £175 million spent on
subscriptions.
• RCUK estimated its needs to £100 millions in the next 5 years
to cover APC costs
• Sept. 2013 UK House of Commons report : « At a time when
the budgets of research organisations and HEIs are under
great pressure, it is unacceptable that the Government has
issued, without public consultation, an open access policy that
will require considerable subsidy from research budgets in
order to maintain journal subscriptions and cover APCs […]
We are concerned that the expectation appears to be that
universities and research organisations will fund the balance
of APCs and open access costs from their own reserves. »

12. OpenEdition Freemium : leveraging the
libraries budget to support open access
journals

13. Freemium : open access to content,
premium services to libraries

14. « Subscribing » to open access
• Platform fixed cost
funded by institutions
• 66% of Freemium
income to journals
• 33% to develop new
services
• 100% reinvested for
open access
• 100 journals participating
to OE Freemium
program
• 2012 : 39 libraries
subscribing
• 2013 : 60 libraries
subscribing
• 2014 : 83 libraries
subscribing

15. OpenEdition Freemium is a
pragmatic AND a political
proposition to academic
community…

16. … in order to build an alliance
between scholars, publishers and
librairies to support open access &
knowledge dissemination

17. Thank you !
pierre.mounier@openedition.org