OpenEdition Freemium is an innovation in the domain of open-access academic publishing. It is based on a hybrid economic model combining open-access to information and paid services generating income for the producers of its resources. The program offers the perfect opportunity to place libraries at the heart of the development of open-access publication. It is Cléo’s way of offering libraries and publishers a mean to create a sustainable alliance to promote open-access in the humanities and social sciences. Two-thirds of income is allocated to those journals and partner publishers who adopt the freemium model. The other third enables us to develop the platform. All income created by OpenEdition Freemium is then reinvested in the development of open-access academic publishing.

From February 2011, the OpenEdition Freemium program offered by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo) will enable libraries:

• to access six premium services specially designed to respond to their needs;

• to take part in the construction of an economic model for open access and find an alternative to restricted access platforms, which constrict users and diminish the impact of academic production;

• to create a dynamic which will incite more journals of quality to become open-access.

Further information on OpenEdition website.