[Open-access] The costs for going Gold in the Netherlands

Wed Mar 5 06:13:08 UTC 2014

I guess that estimation is based on the assumption that the Netherlands cover the cost for every article where an author from the Netherlands is involved ...

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Von: open-access [open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org]" im Auftrag von "Bjoern Brembs [b.brembs at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 05. März 2014 06:49
An: open-access at lists.okfn.org
Betreff: Re: [Open-access] The costs for going Gold in the Netherlands

On 03/04/2014 11:59 PM, Gerritsma, Wouter wrote:
For two working groups of the Dutch University libraries I was asked to make a calculation for the costs of a 100% Gold open access model.
It will only costs 10.5 million euro extra was my conclusion.
Blogged at http://wowter.net/2014/03/05/costs-going-gold-netherlands/

Wait a minute - you count about 1000€ per article in APCs. This would amount to 40m in total costs, while subscriptions are actually CHEAPER? World-wide, the subscription cost pr article is about 5k$, while in the Netherlands you pay less than 1k€ per article? How does your country manage to pay less than 20% of the average subscription fees compared to the rest of the world? Are you subscribing to so many fewer journals compared to the articles you publish? That's astounding!

Bjoern