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/
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/.
Colleen Campbell
Open Access 2020 Initiative
Max Planck Digital Library
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