I imagine the "unexplained" difference is that the Netherlands price is for an OA article in a hybrid journal that creates global access for that article vs the German PAR that is global access for the article + for a portion of the read access DEAL has secured for over 700 German institutions to the non-OA articles in Wiley journals. Whereas, in the Netherlands, institutions must still subscribe to the non-OA content. I.e., the Netherlands has an offset not a PAR agreement. Lisa
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
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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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