RE: Libraries in Springer Open Choice

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

Applying all the fee to the author's institute's subscriptions, will bring
most of the library prices very close to sero--for those schools. The
smaller ones that get the journals but do not publish in them will still
be paying the initial higher prices, but for increasingly less content as
more and more of it goes OA.  On the other hand, apparently most other OA
journal schemes penalize the large schools, which produce most of the
articles and thus pay for most of the cost of the publication.  There are
probably any number of rational ways of handling this: One might start at
50:50.
 
Dr. David Goodman
dgoodman@liu.edu
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of Heather Morrison 
Sent: Tue 7/13/2004 7:19 PM 
Subject: Re: Libraries in Springer Open Choice
	
Regardless of what the Springer policy might be - providing the
bookkeeping could be made simple so as not to add to the costs - perhaps
there would be something to be said for a system that allowed libraries to
deduct such author payments from their own institution's subscription
costs on a dollar-by-dollar basis?
	
Surely there must be a means of creating a simple, automated bookkeeping
system to keep track?  Perhaps libraries could create one, perhaps an open
source system, and submit evidence of author payments in lieu (or partial
lieu) of subscription payments?
	
cheers,
	
Heather Morrison