RE: Library subscription rebates for Open Choice content

Hi Ann

In answer to your two questions below, the 2008 online-only

prices of Oxford Open journals have been adjusted to reflect
any 
increase in the amount of open access versus non-open access

content published in each journal in 2006 compared to the
amount 
in 2005.

Generally, the more open access content published in a
journal, 
the lower the future online-only price. However, the picture
is 
sometimes complicated by other factors such as changes in
page 
extent, issue frequency, and exchange rate adjustments. For

instance, on average, our journals' page extents have
increased 
6% between 2006 and 2007.

For a list of journals in Oxford Open and their 2008 pricing

adjustments please visit 
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen
/2008%20online-only%20price%20ad 
justments.doc.

Please let me know if you have any questions/queries.


Kind regards

Kirsty Luff | Senior Communications & Marketing Manager
Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street | Oxford | OX2 6DP

+44 (0)1865 354206
kirsty.luffoxfordjournals.org

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Sent: 16 July 2007 17:09
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Subject: Library subscription rebates for Open Choice
content

Dear Readers:  Various of our journal contracts now state
that 
where authors pay for Open Choice (or something like it,
i.e., 
cover costs of publication of their articles to be free to
all 
readers worldwide), library subscriptions will be rebated
for the 
equivalent.

Questions:

1.  How do you all imagine this will work in real life?

2.  Has it happened already, i.e., has Open Choice or Author

Choice or whatever, been around for long enough?  Or, will
it 
happen as of 2008 and if so, what are publishers preparing
to do 
to adjust 2008 subscriptions?

Thank you, Ann Okerson/Yale Library