From: leo waaijers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:10:41 +0100

An interesting (and unexplained) price difference to the Netherlands, where
we pay € 1600 per Wiley article.


See: https://www.qoam.eu/Content/documents/Price-per-article.pdf



Leo Waaijers





From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:40:18 +0000

Today brings an analysis of the financials of this deal from Marcel
Knöchelmann - working out to an estimate of the total cost of this deal to
Germany being about 30m Euro – see:



“The PAR fee of €2,750 is quite high. With the estimated annual publishing
volume being 10,000 articles, the initial price tag of the contract may be
€27,500,000. This is not explicitly stated in the fact sheet issued by DEAL
and is also subject to variation. However, the cost of €27,5m excludes the
cost for gold open access. If Wiley’s current rate of gold open access
publications is estimated to be 15% for articles in Germany, there will be
additional costs for gold open access APCs for about 1,500 articles. This
would amount to €2,823,000 (€1,882 x 1,500 if the APCs of Wiley’s fully
open access journal portfolio is averaged); with the 20% discount this
would be about €2,25m. All in all, the PAR agreement may amount to annual
costs of roughly €30m.”
https://www.lepublikateur.de/2019/01/16/pay-to-publish-open-access-deal-wiley-agreement/



Another very interesting observation that Marcel includes is that, while
Wiley got a PAR fee of €2,750 per article, DEAL had only offered Elsevier
€2,000 per article (which Elsevier rejected).



I wonder if Wiley has now managed to set the minimum PAR per article
payment for the industry – at a level that is actually higher than the
average Wiley Gold APC!



Lisa



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From: Colleen Campbell <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:45:34 +0000

***with apologies for cross-posting***



Dear Colleagues,



In case you have not yet seen the news, Germany’s Projekt DEAL and the
publisher John Wiley & Sons have entered a ground-breaking transformative
agreement, in line with the objectives of the Open Access 2020 initiative:
https://www.hrk.de/press/press-releases/press-release/meldung/wiley-and-projekt-deal-partner-to-enhance-the-future-of-scholarly-research-and-publishing-in-germany/
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Under this new agreement, all authors affiliated with 700 academic
institutions in Germany will retain copyright and their accepted articles
will be published open access in Wiley journals. Almost 10,000 articles by
German researchers are published a year in Wiley journals, constituting
around 9% of the publisher’s total output. The agreement also grants
students and faculty read access to the full Wiley journal portfolio
including backfiles starting with 1997. The national-level agreement is
based on a “Publish&Read” model in which fees are paid by institutions—not
for subscriptions but for open access publishing services.



The agreement will be made public in a month’s time and an English-language
FAQ will be released by the Projekt DEAL working group.



Best wishes,



Colleen



*Transformative agreements* are those contracts negotiated between
institutions (libraries, consortia) and publishers that transform the
business model of scholarly communication in which the parties are engaged
from subscription to open access. They allow institutions to remove their
financial support of paywalls and shift their investments to support open
access publishing, thus ensuring maximum impact for the research they
produce and ongoing and unencumbered access to knowledge for their faculty
and students. Because the vast majority of scholarly publishing currently
happens in journals produced by a relatively small number of commercial
publishers, transformative agreements with these publishers, in particular,
constitute a high-impact strategy, in line with the objectives of the Open
Access 2020 initiative, to accelerate the transition of scholarly
communication to open access. From an administrative perspective,
transformative agreements unlock the opaque, lump-sum payments to
publishers for reading access—largely based on legacy print
expenditures—and, instead, articulate fees for services at the article
level; this shift brings cost transparency to the scholarly publishing
marketplace, enables market competition to contain pricing, and disbands
the lump-sums fees of subscriptions so that investments are free to follow
authors as they determine the publishing venues most appropriate for their
work—a necessary step on the path to a diverse ecosystem in scholarly
communication. For more information on transformative agreements, see
http://esac-initiative.org/
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Colleen Campbell

*Open Access 2020 Initiative*

Max Planck Digital Library

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https://oa2020.org
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https://oa2020.org/Executive-Summary.pdf
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