Re: Raym Crow on publishing cooperatives

["Sally Morris \(Chief Executive\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

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