Postulated Effect On Subscription Prices
Since one of the proposed sources for the necessary funds for open-access articles might be the library subscription budget, there needs to be a decrease in the subscription cost to the library. Therefore, the article payments must not merely add to the normal subscription cost, but rather reduce the cost. For example, the Open Access Authors Fund of the University of Calgary Library (2009/09) requires that: "To be eligible for funding in this category, the publisher must plan to make (in the next subscription year) reductions to the institutional subscription prices based on the number of open-access articles in those journals. To date, the only publishers that have done this are Oxford University Press, which has reduced subscription fees for the hybrid journals in its Oxford Open program, and the American Institute of Physics, which has done the same for its Author Select program. Other publishers may follow this lead in the future". On November 12, 2009, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) issued this news release: Open Access uptake prompts 9% price reduction for The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports. On November 13, 2009, critical comments about the news release were posted, by a university librarian, to the LIS-E-RESOURCES discussion list.
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