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.