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Item Conservation Biology as an Example of the Dilemmas Facing Scholarly Society Publishing(2018-12) Lewis, David W.This paper looks and the journal Conservation Biology published by the Society of Conservation Biology. It considers the dilemmas that the society must confront as it confronts Plan S and the potential requirement that the journal change its economic model from hybrid to fully open access. The dilemmas are: 1. ethical; 2. concerning the value the society offers its members, and 3. financial.Item How Scholarly Societies Solved Their Collective Action Problem(2019-05) Lewis, David W.Like all organizations, scholarly societies, face a collective action problem. As defined by Mancur Olson, the collective action problem is that individuals are not general prepared to fund initiatives that further their collective interest. This paper explores the collective action problem faced by scholarly societies and how they solved it by generating significant surpluses from their publishing programs. It is argued that this solution will not survive the shift to open access publishing models, especially in light of Plan S.Item Scholarly Societies and the Newspaper Problem(2018-11) Lewis, David W.This paper looks at the current economic model of large scholarly societies. This model relies on significant surpluses from publishing operations to fund other activities of the societies. It is argued that this economic model lacks transparency as colleges and universities supply a subsidy to the societies by overpaying for journals and indexes and that they are generally not aware that this is happening. If is further argued that as was the case with newspapers a decade ago, scholarly societies will need to reinvent their economic model. The driving force is likely to be the coming pressure to adopt an Open Access model. Plan S is the current manifestation of this pressure.