Whose money is it anyway? Managing offset agreements | Unlocking Research

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-06-30

Summary:

"Sometimes an innocent question can blow up a huge discussion, and this is what happened recently at an RCUK OA Practitioner’s Group meeting when I asked what was appropriate for institutions to do when managing money they receive as refunds from publishers through offsetting arrangements.

When an institution pays for an article processing charge (APC) in a hybrid journal, it is doing so in addition to the existing subscription. This is generally referred to as ‘double dipping’.  I have written extensively about the issues with hybrid in the past, but here, I’d like to discuss the management of offset agreements.

Offset agreements are a compensation by a publisher to an institution for the extra money they are putting into the system through payment of APCs. Most large publishers have some sort of offset agreement for institutions in the UK which are negotiated by Jisc, based on the principles for offset agreements. (There is one significant publisher which is an exception because it insists there is no need for an offset agreement because it does not double dip.)...."

Link:

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1458

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Tags:

oa.new oa.offsets oa.funds oa.publishers oa.fees oa.recommendations oa.negotiations oa.hybrid

Date tagged:

06/30/2017, 09:42

Date published:

06/30/2017, 07:15