My intuition is that it should be free, but this will depend on the
costs of production. We don't want our online journal to wobble
because we don't have adequate support. What I would like to see is
IFnotCoHCOthenDiSH give a sense of the financial support they would
be prepared to provide. My sense was that the ACH was going to put
some of the new funds it got from LLC towards the journal, but I
can't remember why I thought that and it will be up to the executive.
I would propose therefore that the publications committee poll the
ACH and ALLC exec to see if they would provide a total of around
$5,000 a year for 5 years as a commitment to an online journal. If
the winning bid can document why they need more (costs of
translation, for example), then the pub committee would go back to
the organizations and dicker.
Yours,
Geoffrey R.
At 3:56 PM -0400 5/28/04, Julia Flanders wrote:
>This publication report is very thorough and impressive!
>
>I wonder whether it might be useful to mention more explicitly the
>question of whether the online journal will be free or
>subscription-based. I know that the request for proposals indicates
>that proposals should discuss how the journal would be financed, but
>if the COHCO (IFDISH? whatever) group has any prior intuitions about
>this, it would be good if they could be made clear; I think it would
>focus the proposals more effectively. Has there in fact been any
>discussion among the publications committee on this topic? any
>conclusions?
>
>Otherwise I think this is great.
>
>best wishes, Julia
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