Sind Wissenschaftseinrichtungen die besseren Verlage? - TIB AV-Portal

An event in the series: Quo vadis open science? A virtual Open Access Week for Berlin-Brandenburg. In the library world, we like to argue about the pricing of open access journals like articles: How much can it cost? Until recently, the funding agency DFG set a limit of a maximum of two thousand euros per article for APC fees for publication funds. The circumstance is interesting in that, in addition to the classic publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, etc. via so-called "Publish & Read" models that charge quite high prices (e.g., for the DEAL contracts), the full-cost calculations of university-owned publishers, series, journals, articles, or scientific organizations are significantly lower. For DEAL, the white paper "Nationwide conversion to Open Access possible" was decisive, also with regard to the transformation costs. According to this, there are already sufficient resources in the market. Other calculations are based on usage analyses, of course in the case of licensing costs. So far, pricing on the part of the monopsony library has been quite restrained for commercial publishers in the context of bilaterally or consortially negotiated license agreements. We know other examples from other industries. Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess "reorganized [...] the Rover plants in England and, as head of the purchasing department, saved four billion euros by having the suppliers calculate why their products were worth less than they had previously received for them." VW's own production was cited as a comparative cost. So they knew the expenses, just as we know the costs of OA. Knowing that public institutions create open access publications more cost-effectively, can we price them similarly to the car company? Other questions follow, should the publication market be divided into commercial offerings and offerings from public bodies? Are OA publishers also good publishers, do they develop publishing programs, do they create digital added value from their repository? The discussion panel will take a closer look at the price-performance ratio and cost-benefit components for OA. Nor will it leave out the question of where publishers and open access platforms compete. How they differ as public vs. private sector bodies?.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/55980