[{"id":212,"title":"Donation-Driven Open Science Journal","sha":"5b4a7b0f11a9b4da95d2a1014b7b5c82","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Why should taxpayers and funding agencies pay journal publication fees and open access charges? I propose creating a new open access journal funded entirely through donations and foundation funding. The journal would be administered by a nonprofit. All work for the nonprofit would be strictly voluntary including editing and peer review. Costs would be limited to server hosting. Free services such as Medium and Gitlab/Github would be used as much as possible to keep costs down. In fact, early on, github pages could be used to keep all costs to near $0. If this worked, it could demonstrate the value of open science and open data (if data were required to be open as a condition of publication).","created_at":"2015-08-29T18:57:05.409Z","updated_at":"2016-05-14T05:24:30.799Z","zenodo_id":58449,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.29992","subject":null,"tags":["open science","science communication","scientific journals"],"vote_count":2,"view_count":1,"score":2.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":197,"title":"2 solutions to escalating prices of scientific journals","sha":"d355b3d2408363e353e1ce5448da6abd","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"A major financial problem for research libraries is the escalated subscription prices of scientific journals. A year's subscription for a journal of neurology might be 20 000 dollars and the average price for a chemistry journal is 3500 dollars (Darnton, 2009 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281). I bring forth 2 solutions to these skyrocketing prices:\r\n\r\n1)\tA higher status given for open-access journals in the recruiting and promoting process would in the long run create downward pressure for the escalated subscription prices. \r\n\r\n2)\tA categorical cancellation by libraries of the most expensive journal in each subfield. This would punish the greediest publisher, and create a downward spiral in the pricing where each publisher would try to price its journals below the price of their competitors. In case of a draw, both journals should be cancelled in order to hinder pricing agreements between publishers. \r\n\r\nTo avoid an cancellation of high-quality journals in order to support lower quality journals, or cancelling much-used journals in order to support little-used journals. We could also consider dividing the price of the journal with its impact factor, taking into account different alternative impact factor indexes, and then cancel the one with the highest price/quality–index. Alternatively, we could calculate a price/use-index. \r\n","created_at":"2015-08-03T12:23:57.984Z","updated_at":"2015-09-04T06:00:29.322Z","zenodo_id":42596,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22801","subject":null,"tags":["open-access","subscription prices","scientific journals"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]