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PREFERRED TERM

nonprofit publishing  

DEFINITION(S)

  • Publishing activities that make available original scholarly outputs whose quality, editorial procedures, and content are controlled by (members of) an Institution without the aim to generate a profit and without applying APCs.

SYNONYM(S)

  • nonprofit OA publishing

NOTE

  • ALMASI proposal

SCOPE NOTE(S)

  • The term ‘nonprofit’ is preferred to ‘not-for-profit’ because only nonprofit organisations are required to benefit the public good, an explicit goal of OA scholarly communication. As part of the ALMASI project, this term refers particularly to Diamond OA (OA) publishing solutions led by scholarly organisations, institutions or scholars : Nonprofit publishing = non-APC AND (non-profit publisher OR research performing organizations). This definition does not include the hosting of content in repositories, educational materials, and archiving.

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/AMG-d1e1929

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