Cambridge University Press (CUP) is planning to make big advances in the journal publishing market, following a £1m investment in a new back-end journal subscription system. The charity, which is technically the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, also expects to be back in the black in the current financial year, following four years of overall loss-making....
[Most of the changes affect subscription journals, but not all.] Collier [CUP's Business Development Manager for Journals] said CUP was not going to be left behind on the open access front, and would follow in the steps of Springer, OUP and Blackwell. “We’ll be launching 10 journals on the hybrid publishing model in the next year,” he said. “We are also looking at finding more backing for open access along the lines of our free Breast Cancer online journal, which is funded by AstraZeneca.”
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/04/2006 08:56:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
