Hindawi Announces an Open Access Institutional Membership Program

[Paul Peters <paul.peters@hindawi.com>]

Press Release
August 18, 2008

Hindawi Announces an Open Access Institutional Membership Program

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is pleased to announce the launch 
of its Open Access Institutional Membership program, which will 
enable authors from member institutes to publish their work in 
Hindawi's 125+ open access journals without having to administer 
and pay any Article Processing Charges from their individual 
research budgets.

"I am very happy to be announcing this new membership program, 
since it will give us an opportunity to work with librarians and 
research administrators to encourage their authors to publish in 
an open access journal" said Paul Peters, Hindawi's Head of 
Business Development. "Universities and other research 
organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of 
open access publishing, and this program will enable them to take 
an active role in moving from a subscription-based publication 
system to a system based on open access."

Hindawi's membership program is based on a flat rate payment that 
covers all accepted articles that are submitted by an author from 
a member institute during the period of the membership. The cost 
of the membership depends on the level of research output of the 
institute and their historical publishing pattern in Hindawi 
journals. Anyone who would like to receive a quotation for their 
institute can do so by contacting memberships@hindawi.com.

In order to help universities and other research organizations 
judge the level of participation of their researchers in Hindawi 
journals (whether as authors, editors, or reviewers), Hindawi has 
created institutional profile pages to showcase the output of an 
organization. The institutional web page of a particular 
institute can be accessed using a URL of the form 
"http://www.hindawi.com/institutions/domain/,"; where "domain" is 
the domain name of the particular institution. For example, the 
institutional web page for the University of California, Los 
Angeles is located at 
http://www.hindawi.com/institutions/ucla.edu/.

In addition to the 125+ open access journals that Hindawi 
currently publishes, this membership will include any journal 
that is added to Hindawi's collection during the term of the 
membership.

For more information please contact:

Paul Peters
Head of Business Development
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
paul.peters@hindawi.com