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Re: Raym Crow on publishing cooperatives



What delaying tactics? I see more and more publishers (both commercial and NFP) launching hybrid models...

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org
Website: www.alpsp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Landesman" <margaret.landesman@utah.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:38 PM
Subject: RE: Raym Crow on publishing cooperatives


Joe, Peter,

Further to David's point, many acquistions budgets have been flat for some years. Ours anyway may well start going down. On-going expenses to the largest publshers go up - raises low in percentage but high in dollars. This leaves fewer dollars for other purchases. Unfunded technology infrastructure and staff costs also eat away at budgets.

Any responsible publisher must surely be putting together a plan that anticipates a very substantial drop in library subscriptions.

Why not experiment with hybrid OA? Commercial ones are. Or move to the ALPSP or university presses. There are the offers from publishers promising, as they are on my campus, to double the price and triple the number of subscriptions - one assumes with bundled subscriptions. We can't afford this scenario. ( Not to mention how mad it makes us.)

Campuses are getting serious about Institutional Repositories and beginning to incorporate contract language on IR rights, as well as passing faculty resolutions encouraging or requiring this.

We are tying up the resources of both libraries and scholarly publishers in delaying tactics - they make it hard for us to put our articles in and we make it hard for them to say no.

What a waste of effort on the part of two groups, both under great financial stress, which share the same mission.

On an Open Access model, I can still send you the money - I just send it up front when the article is accepted. This saves the library a great deal of staff and technology costs in authentication and linking. And surely might save publisher costs in the same way.

Best,
Margaret Landesman
Collection Development
University of Utah