<div dir="ltr">When it comes to author-pays and the problems of funding the forever business, I think a lot of people have noticed the issue, but are not making a lot of noise about it because there seems no obvious solution. After all, the terrible thing that might happen hasn’t happened yet, might not happen at all (if we’re lucky) and, anyway, is off there in the future, with all the other digital and geopolitical imponderables.<br>
<br>However, I think the problem is worth looking at now. Firstly because the scholarly record is kind of important, and secondly because there might just be a solution offered by freemium.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
​</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><br><a href="http://www.semantico.com/2014/07/freemium-and-the-forever-business-payment-models-in-scholarly-publishing/">http://www.semantico.com/2014/07/freemium-and-the-forever-business-payment-models-in-scholarly-publishing/</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
​</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b><font color="#ff0000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I propose a "zero-way" of keeping the scholarly record forever, and that is to make academic libraries the responsible custodian of all the digital scholarly output.</font></font></b></div>
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<b><font color="#ff0000">How much will it cost? See: <a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Value_Proposition">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Value_Proposition</a>​</font></b></div></div></div>