Re: Institutional Journal Costs in an Open Access Environment

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

Any change in pricing model tends to change the way in which 
different people pick up the tab.  The problem is that models 
which are 'fairer', whether subscription, OA or anything else - 
i.e. those which load more of the cost on those who receive the 
most benefit and/or are most able to pay - will be unpopular with 
exactly those people.  Publishers find this when trying to move 
to fairer pricing models too!

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 11:14 PM
Subject: RE: Institutional Journal Costs in an Open Access Environment

> It is not a new idea that the largest and wealthiest 
> universities should pay more than other places to support 
> scientific publishing. They already do: there are many 
> expensive periodicals and indexes that no one but they will 
> buy--some essential, some not.
>
> The rationale for spending some of this money on OA journal 
> author subsidies instead, is that it would be a more 
> appropriate and effective use of the money.
>
> Instead, these libraries could cancel some of the least 
> necessary and most overpriced periodicals, and buy many items 
> of greater usefullness instead. This also would be a more 
> appropriate and effective use of the money.
>
> Dr. David Goodman, Associate Professor Palmer School of Library 
> and Information Science Long Island University
> dgoodman@liu.edu