From: Saskia de Vries <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 12:21:14 +0000

Dear all,



Price transparency is a key requirement for journals to be compliant with
Plan S.  The Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) now presents the *FOAA
Breakdown of Publishing Services and Prices* that it developed in
one-on-one talks with a number of publishers, see below and see
https://www.fairopenaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/0.4-press-release-nov-2019-Fair-Open-Access-breakdown.pdf
.


FOAA invites all publishers to use this breakdown to make the structure of
their fees transparent, in order to inform the market in the sense of Principle
5 of Plan S <https://www.coalition-s.org/principles-and-implementation/>.



Saskia de Vries / Fair Open Access Alliance





*The Fair Open Access Breakdown of Publication Services and Fees*

*Service baskets*

*Components*

*Specify*

*%*

*Price*

*1. Journal operations*

- Journal support and submission system
- Platform development and maintenance
- Helpdesk & other support staff

In/out house

*2. Publication*

- Triaging
- Organization peer review
- Other Editorial assistance
- Indexing
- Archiving

- Typesetting
- Copy-editing
- Language editing
- Proofreading

Rejec-tion rate

*3. Fees*

- Scientific editors fees
- Scholarly societies fees

Agree-ments

*4. Communication*

- Dissemination
- PR & marketing

- Community support
- Advocacy

*5. General*

- Management & administration
- Other business costs
- Taxes

Can be allocated elsewhere since it is not a service

*6. Surplus*

- Can be allocated elsewhere
- Cross-subsidizing of titles?

*7. Discounts & waivers*

Policy


*Total publication fee per article *(Average for: i. all journals of a
publisher,  ii. one journal, iii. a subset of journals)

*Rules:   *- Baskets 1-7 represent the minimum information required.
- These can be extended to a maximum of 10 baskets as publishers see fit
for their operations.
- For Baskets 1, 2 and 5, several components must be specified, though 5
can be allocated elsewhere.
- Components can be joined together or extended.