Willetts calls for publisher offsetting to encourage open access | News | Times Higher Education
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However, he adds that he understands why some research-intensive universities continue to prefer green despite the funding for gold fees that Research Councils UK has made available. This is because of concerns that the total cost to them of publication will rise under a fully gold model because, on top of paying article fees, they will need to continue to maintain their subscriptions to hybrid journals for access to international research ... The government therefore 'looks to the publishing industry to develop innovative and sustainable solutions'. He suggests this should involve a 'meaningful proportion of an institution’s total [article charges] with a publisher' being 'offset against total subscription payments with that publisher' on a sliding scale up to a set limit. Mr Willetts expects to see 'firm evidence of such initiatives by publishers' by the time RCUK reviews its open access policy later this year . He also urges universities to make sure they do not 'inadvertently reduce competitive pressure' on article fees by becoming locking into long contracts for bundled charges. He says 'science policy or business schools could help learned societies that rely on their publishing arms to develop new business models'. Mr Willetts also notes that the government has commissioned a study into the feasibility of undertaking a full cost-benefit analysis of its open access policy. It has been criticised by several figures, including the Lords Science and Technology Committee, for not having carried one out before announcing its open access policy a month after the Finch Report was published ..."
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