UK: Two More Scholarly Publishers Agree to Reduce Subscription Costs Against OA Payments Received
From the University College London (UCL):
UCL welcomes the news that two major academic publishers are to reduce the costs of their subscriptions against payments they receive to publish open-access articles from 2015.
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In response to pressure from the academic community, with vocal input from UCL, a number of publishers have now acknowledged the unsatisfactory nature of these arrangements for the total cost of ownership (sometimes unhelpfully described as ‘double-dipping’).
In an agreement negotiated by JISC Collections, the publishers Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor & Francis have joined the Institute of Physics in reducing the costs of their subscriptions.
Read the Announcement
See Also: JISC Releases Data and Report on the Total Cost of Ownership (Journal Subscriptions + APC Payments)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.