[Corpora-List] OALI pledge to publish (open access monographs in linguistics)

[Stefan Müller]

Dear Eric,

Thanks for asking this question. Depending on the subject you are 
working on in linguistics the number of printed copies is rather low and 
hence you either do not find a publisher or the book prices are very 
high or you have to pay a high fee.

For some examples see:

http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/OALI/background.html

The book prices consist of production cost, profit margins, and 
distribution costs. 55% are distribution costs. Our books will be 
availible as PDF (for free) and by Print on Demand. Because we do not 
have the classical distribution costs (storage, distributers, ...), we 
do not have these 55% as part of our costs and we do not have profit 
margins. The Print On Demand books will be a factor 20-60 cheaper than 
those of commercial publishers.

Since the pdfs are freely availible you will have a much larger 
readership, more citations, more fun. There are studies showing this. See

http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/oa-jlm.html

for references.

In addition we will convert all texts into XML and as a corpus linguist 
your heart should beat higher when you hear this. Everybody can access 
everything. Isn't that great?

Last point:
We are working with the crowd. Accepted manuscripts can be reviewed by 
additional reviewers from the crowd and therefore we can increase 
quality even further. In addition there will be many proofreaders and 
typesetters (for those who need assistance). We therefore will be faster 
and better than traditional publishers.

Our typesetters are linguists, hence we do not have the friction between 
author and typesetter and hence much less frustration.

Please refer to to see how many proofreaders and typesetters already 
signed (after 20 hours).

http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/OALI/

We are working for us, not for the 35-40% profit margins of publishers 
like Springer or Elsevier.

If you want to discuss these questions further, we can do so in Frank 
Richter's blog:

http://www.frank-m-richter.de/freescienceblog/

There are quite a few interesting posts already, for instance concerning 
the economy of the publishing business.

Best wishes

         Stefan

Am 18.02.13 10:08, schrieb Yannick Versley:
> (and, for obvious reasons, you don't know what
> you are buying unless you already have the chapter in question from the author's
> website, or have read a review of the chapter or book somewhere)

And this is a very good argument, which is/was not on our pages until now.

If you like comics, you may watch this one:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1533

Greetings from Berlin

	Stefan


-- 
Stefan Müller       Tel: (+49) (+30) 838 52973
                     Fax: (+49) (030) 838 4 52973
Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie
Deutsche Grammatik
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14 195 Berlin

http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/

http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/OALI/ (Open Access)

http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/Projects/CoreGram.html

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