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PA-BMSAP
Durability and Accessibility for Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société de Paris: for open anthropology
This project aims at ensuring the continuity and accessibility, as a diamond open access journal, of the oldest biological anthropology journal in the world which was founded in 1859.
Points of contact
presidence@sapweb.fr
aurelien.mounier@mnhn.fr
Project in brief
Leading establishment
Société d'anthropologie de Paris
Funding recipient(s)
Société d'anthropologie de Paris
Project duration
36 mois
Funding
20 000,00 €
Components of the projet
- Transition from a private and paying publisher to a public distribution platform.
- End of subscriptions and publication of the journal in open access diamond.
- Obtaining open access for previous issues of BMSAP published by Springer (2010-2017).
- Perpetuate the new economic model of the newspaper in order to continue the diffusion of its contents in open access diamond.
Major resuts
- Change in the publishing business model.
- End of subscriptions and open access distribution via OpenEditions Journals.
- Listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
- Free access to manuscripts published between 2010 and 2017 on the Springer platform.
- Agreement obtained from Lavoisier to transfer manuscripts published between 2016 and 2020 to OpenEditions Journals.
