Re: Springer Open Choice uptake affects 2011 journal pricing

[Fred.Jenkins@notes.udayton.edu]

Jan,

That is a fallacy.  You are only talking about net publisher 
revenue, which would make sense if the journal were totally open 
source and nobody paid for a subscription.  But as long as the 
journals are partly open source and partly subscription model, 
anyone who wants the full content of the journal has to pay the 
subscription price.  If the same full-price institutional 
subscriber also pays some open access fees for its authors, the 
institution is actually paying more than the full subscription 
price!  Even those who don't pay author fees are then still 
paying "full price" for articles that the authors already have 
paid to have made open access, which can only be described as an 
out and out scam.  So at bottom you are saying that maintaining 
net publisher revenues is what defines fair, regardless of how 
you get there.


Fred W. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Collections & Operations
  & Professor
University of Dayton Libraries