TY - Discussion paper AU - Raym Crow PY - 2006 T1 - Publishing cooperatives: an alternative for society publishers PB - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition DO - https://doi.org/APO-220376 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/220376 AB - This SPARC discussion paper proposes a federation of discipline-specific publishing cooperatives as an alternative operating model for society publishers. Publishing cooperatives would be owned, capitalized, and controlled by nonprofit publishers as users, with publishers sharing risks and benefits proportional to their use of the cooperative. ER -