[TYPES] Diamond open access, cost and sustainability model: a JOSS example

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

Hi Gabriel,
    stunning as it may seem, there are over 29.000 diamond open access
journals around the world <https://operas.hypotheses.org/4579> (i.e. free
[as in free beer] to publish and read). A majority of these are in the
humanities, but there are quite a few in STEM too.

Unfortunately, there is no free lunch, and somebody needs to foot the bill
(there is a bill, see "What is a sustainable path to open access
<https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/01/14/what-is-a-sustainable-path-to-open-access/>?"),
which usually means a lot of volunteer work besides reviewing and editing.

I suggest to have a look at this editorial piece of JOT (Journal of Object
Technology) that has been around for some 20 years: it provides quite a bit
of insight

Pierantonio, A., van den Brand, M., & Combemale, B. (2020). Open access all
you wanted to know and never dared to ask. Journal of Object Technology,
19(1) <https://doi.org/10.5381/JOT.2020.19.1.E1>

Cheers

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Roberto

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On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 18:57, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> Dear list,
>
> Today I found out about JOSS, the Journal of Open Source Software (
> https://joss.theoj.org/ ), an interesting journal in itself, which has a
> stunning "Cost and sustainability model" webpage section:
>   https://joss.theoj.org/about#costs
>
> For more stunning details, go read their more detailed blog post, "Cost
> models for running an online open journal" : )
>
>
> http://blog.joss.theoj.org/2019/06/cost-models-for-running-an-online-open-journal
>
> (Meanwhile in ACM land, we are still waiting for basic financial
> transparency on paper publishing costs -- not that, say, ETAPS or JFP are
> doing any better.
> LIPIcs describes how they calculated their publishing costs at
> https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/processing-charge/ , and
> LMCS ( https://lmcs.episciences.org/ ) is now using a publicly-funded OA
> publishing platform, so they may actually have no costs at all.)
>
> Cheers
>