[Irtalk] Impact of Social Sciences – Exploring the publishing model of the Open Library of Humanities: A view from Latin America

[Hilton Gibson]

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.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/09/30/publishing-model-of-the-open-library-of-humanities

*​Also see:
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>*
*And:
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>*

*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?*
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