<div dir="ltr">Bearing this in mind, the Open Library of Humanities came up with a different proposal: to charge libraries. It is defined as a collective funding model. When the proposal came forward in 2013, it was based on the following supposition: Consider a journal publishes 250 articles in a year – If 100 libraries were involved, each library should contribute USD$1850.00 so the cost of the article per institution would be USD$7.40. If 400 libraries were involved, their contribution would be USD$462.00 and the cost per article would drop to USD$1.84.<div><br><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/09/30/publishing-model-of-the-open-library-of-humanities">http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/09/30/publishing-model-of-the-open-library-of-humanities</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">​Also see: <a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Self-Hosting_Value_Proposition">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Self-Hosting_Value_Proposition</a></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">And: <a href="http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/an-introduction-for-librarians-to-long-term-digital-preservation-of-the-digital-academic-research-record-by-academic-libraries">http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/an-introduction-for-librarians-to-long-term-digital-preservation-of-the-digital-academic-research-record-by-academic-libraries</a></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><font color="#0000ff"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Perhaps there is an even better business model that is sustainable in the long term? What is there to stop the mega-journal from charging more and more in the future once it has the monopoly on humanities journal publishing?</font></font></b></div><br></div></div>