Comment. The press release doesn't say whether Göttingen is paying anything beyond its current Springer subscriptions for this extra benefit. (The Open Choice publication fee is normally $3,000 per article.) If so, then the deal is much like an institutional membership program. But if not, then it's like the Springer deal with the Dutch library consortium, Universiteitsbibliotheken en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (UKB), in which current subscription payments are considered to cover publication fees as well.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/05/2007 09:18:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
