No, no. The Wiley contract (which can be found here ) is a PaR contract, although this acronym did not exist at the time.
My personal guess is that Wiley still operates a value based pricing scheme, as in the good old subscription era, which means that the price is based on the perceived wealth of the buyer. And, well, if Germany is the buyer ….
Leo Waaijers
From: "Hinchliffe, Lisa W" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:59:13 +0000
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
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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
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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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