[BOAI] Further Finch Folly - Swets: "Let Us Manage the RCUK Gold For You!"

[Stevan Harnad]

Are you ready for this? Swets is offering a service to manage Gold OA
payments!

What utter nonsense!

It's authors who publish and (if Gold) pay (regardless of whose funds they
are using).

What on earth makes Swets imagine that authors need an institutional
subscription-like service to mediate? (Publishers' hybrid Gold "Membership"
schemes?)

Answer, yet again: Finch Folly, and the RCUK Ruckus about how UK authors
spend their Gold allotments…

But parasitism has become a comfortable way of life, for both publishers
and "aggregators," especially when they can deal with librarians as
mediators and purchasing agents…

(Forget all this Fool's Gold and just mandate & provide Green OA. All the
rest will take care of itself.)

Stevan Harnad

SWETS Launches Open Access APC Management
Service<http://www.swets.com/swets-launches-open-access-apc-management-service>
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The rise in open access publishing is one of the biggest transitions we
have seen in the information industry. It was estimated that 180,000
articles were to be published via paid open access (gold) in 2012. This
rise has naturally developed a need for library or institutional support
services that can help manage the new OA-related processes and workflows
that now exist between libraries, researchers, publishers and funders. ****

At Swets, we feel that we can add value to these new processes, and at the
same time save our customers time and money.
NEW: Article processing charge (APC) management****

*A major administrative burden of the paid (gold) open access publishing
model is the article processing charge, which are paid to publishers for
gold OA papers.*

*For the institution or library, the massive growth in the number of
articles requiring APCs is already putting extra pressure on resources.*Common
problems we hear about include:****

   - Administrative time making individual micro-payments****
   - Managing multiple APC invoices from multiple publishers****
   - Adding extra responsibilities to already over-stretched staff****
   - Mapping out and testing uncertain and non-standardised workflows****
   - Future extra staffing costs to meet increasing APC management demands**
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Our expertise in handling multiple financial transactions gives us the
skills to offer a new service handling time-consuming and costly APCs for
institutions and organizations around the world.****
So what is our service?****

Swets' Open Access services aim to reduce the administrative burden on your
library or institution by managing the complex APC invoicing and payment
process on your behalf, saving you time and resources, which are both
costly.****

Our service features:****

   1. APC management for all types of institution****
   2. APC fund management****
   3. Secure financial transactions****
   4. Multiple payments to multiple publishers****
   5. Detailed real-time reporting****
   6. Established relationships with thousands of publishers****

Our standard process is outlined below. If you have particular requirements
that are not featured here, our service has been developed to be flexible
and customisable, so contact us today to discuss how we could address your
particular needs.****
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