Some background
In the early years of OA (1995-1999), as a member of the Entomological Society of America [ESA], I successfully lobbied its Governing Board to sell to authors of articles in ESA journals “unlimited PDF reprints” [eventually renamed “Open Access reprints” ]. The price of this immediate free Web access to PDF files was based on the price of paper reprints. (During those years, most authors bought 50 or 100 paper reprints and had to deal with the trouble and expense of storing and distributing them.) In 2000, the price ESA charged for making an article open access was set at 75% of the price of 100 paper reprints—for example, for an 8-page article it was $90. Selling this form of OA for a price based on that of paper reprints lasted through 2014. [Details of this background can be found at http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/esaepub.htm.] OUP’s version of open access On 1 Jan 2015, Oxford University Press became the publisher of ESA journals, and for most ESA members the price of “OA” for their articles became $2000 or $2500 per article depending on what license was chosen by the corresponding author at the time the author signed over the copyright of the formatted article to OUP. The author could buy a CC-BY license for $2000 or a CC-BY-NC-ND for $2500. I hope that some of you already know enough about copyright policies in general (or about OUP’s policies as I have described them) to be able to answer these three questions easily. Does this means that the OA is vested only in the Corresponding Author? If so and that author should die, what becomes of those rights? For what reason(s) would a corresponding author choose to buy the more expensive license? If you do not already know the details of OUP’s version of OA and are curious about the options it offers, you can find what potential ESA authors are told about OA charges here<http://aesa.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/charges-licenses-and-self-archiving.html>. (The overall publishing policies and procedures for ESA authors are explained here<http://www.entsoc.org/publish-esa>.) Tom ==================================== Thomas J. Walker Department of Entomology & Nematology PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 352-273-3920 Web: http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ ====================================
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