<div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Are you ready for this? Swets is offering a service to manage Gold OA payments!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">What utter nonsense! </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">It's authors who publish and (if Gold) pay (regardless of whose funds they are using). </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">What on earth makes Swets imagine that authors need an institutional subscription-like service to mediate? (Publishers' hybrid Gold "Membership" schemes?)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Answer, yet again: Finch Folly, and the RCUK Ruckus about how UK authors spend their Gold allotments…</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">
<br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">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…</div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">(Forget all this Fool's Gold and just mandate & provide Green OA. All the rest will take care of itself.)</div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Stevan Harnad</div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
<h1 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.swets.com/swets-launches-open-access-apc-management-service">SWETS Launches Open Access APC Management Service</a><u></u></h1>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">At Swets, we feel that we can add value to these new processes, and at the same time save our customers time and money.</p>
<h2 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="color:green">NEW</span><span>: Article processing charge (APC) management</span><u></u><u></u></h2>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b>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.<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b>For the institution or library, the massive growth in the number of articles requiring APCs is already putting extra pressure on resources.</b>Common problems we hear about include:<u></u><u></u></p>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Administrative time making individual micro-payments<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
Managing multiple APC invoices from multiple publishers<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Adding extra responsibilities to already over-stretched staff<u></u><u></u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mapping out and testing uncertain and non-standardised workflows<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
Future extra staffing costs to meet increasing APC management demands<u></u><u></u></li></ul><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<h4 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold">So what is our service?<u></u><u></u></h4><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Our service features:<u></u><u></u></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
APC management for all types of institution<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">APC fund management<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
Secure financial transactions<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Multiple payments to multiple publishers<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
Detailed real-time reporting<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Established relationships with thousands of publishers<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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