RE: Library subscription rebates for Open Choice content

["LUFF, Kirsty" <kirsty.luff@oxfordjournals.org>]

Hi Ann

In answer to your two questions below, the 2008 online-only 
prices of Oxford Open journals have been adjusted to reflect any 
increase in the amount of open access versus non-open access 
content published in each journal in 2006 compared to the amount 
in 2005.

Generally, the more open access content published in a journal, 
the lower the future online-only price. However, the picture is 
sometimes complicated by other factors such as changes in page 
extent, issue frequency, and exchange rate adjustments. For 
instance, on average, our journals' page extents have increased 
6% between 2006 and 2007.

For a list of journals in Oxford Open and their 2008 pricing 
adjustments please visit 
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/2008%20online-only%20price%20ad 
justments.doc.

Please let me know if you have any questions/queries.


Kind regards

Kirsty Luff | Senior Communications & Marketing Manager
Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street | Oxford | OX2 6DP

+44 (0)1865 354206
kirsty.luff@oxfordjournals.org

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Subject: Library subscription rebates for Open Choice content

Dear Readers:  Various of our journal contracts now state that 
where authors pay for Open Choice (or something like it, i.e., 
cover costs of publication of their articles to be free to all 
readers worldwide), library subscriptions will be rebated for the 
equivalent.

Questions:

1.  How do you all imagine this will work in real life?

2.  Has it happened already, i.e., has Open Choice or Author 
Choice or whatever, been around for long enough?  Or, will it 
happen as of 2008 and if so, what are publishers preparing to do 
to adjust 2008 subscriptions?

Thank you, Ann Okerson/Yale Library