[GOAL] Re: [sparc-oaforum] Re: Cancelling because contents are Green OA vs. because publisher allows Green OA

[Rick Anderson]

It would be interesting to see how much money Rick's library would save, and compare this with how much they could save by cancelling a single big deal with a high-cost publisher.

Sadly, canceling our big deal would end up saving us nothing, because we would then have to subscribe to the high-demand titles individually at a higher aggregate price than what we're currently paying for the big deal. That's what broke down our longstanding resistance to the big deal in the first place. (We could save money by not subscribing to those high-demand titles, of course, but of course we could save even more by simply not buying anything our patrons need.)

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
Desk: (801) 587-9989
Cell: (801) 721-1687
rick.anderson at utah.edu
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