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<div>Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Frédéric. </div>
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<div>Assuming your information is correct, this is the kind of behaviour that has resulted in publishers being labelled predatory. Perhaps someone from Springer would like to clarify their business practice here.</div>
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<div>This illustrates one of the drawbacks of the APC model (all models have drawbacks). Authors must submit work to journals (hybrid or full OA), and journals must accept articles for peer review, when neither party knows if the article will be accepted, and
in many cases it will not be clear who would pay an APC and how.</div>
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<div>In this circumstance it is difficult to see how standard business practices such as up-front credit card or e-transfer payment for products or services to be delivered later, with acceptance of terms, could work. I believe that some publishers have experience
with old-fashioned print-based page charges that is relevant here.</div>
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<div>The situation Frédéric describes is problematic for authors and could result in the same kind of backlash we saw with the "predatory publisher" phenomenon. My advice to fellow OA advocates is to take this seriously, to acknowledge and address the issue.
Let's own the issue, not leave an opening for leadership to someone with an anti-OA perspective.</div>
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<div>Green OA policy - just require deposit for OA in the IR - would avoid this particular problem. </div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Heather Morrison </div>
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<div>From: Frédéric Hélein <frederic.helein@imj-prg.fr> </div>
<div>Date: 2017-11-27 3:09 AM (GMT-05:00) </div>
<div>To: Frédéric Hélein <helein@math.univ-paris-diderot.fr>, Cost of Knowledge <costofknowledge@ima.umn.edu>, goal@eprints.org
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<div>Cc: Bureau RNBM <bureau-rnbm@listes.rnbm.org>, "Barber, Nick, Springer FR" <Nick.Barber@springer.com>, "Peyle, Philippe, Springer FR" <Philippe.Peyle@springer.com>, "Byrne, Catriona, Springer DE" <Catriona.Byrne@springer.com>
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<div>Subject: Re: [GOAL] English </div>
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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"><span id="gmail-OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><span lang="FR"></span></span>Hello,<br>
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<p><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">For the third time in less than a year, I was reported the case of a researcher publishing an article in</span><br>
<span class="">a Springer journal and who is summoned to pay fees for on line Open Access (2640 euros) because he had chosen this option</span><br>
<span class="">without understanding the consequences and because it is impossible for him to go back!</span></span></p>
<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">In this case the last message received contains the very nice sentence:</span></span></span></span>
<div>"<span class="gmail-" lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Please note that we will give our claim to the <b class="gmail-">legal department and debt collection agency</b> if we should not receive your payment in time. You should be aware that there
are further costs involved, such as interest fees and administrative fees for the legal action. In order to avoid this you should remit the outstanding amount immediately.</span>
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<span class="gmail-" lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></div>
<span class="gmail-" lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">We want to provide you one more opportunity in order to clear your debt. "<br>
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<div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">The basic problems are always the same: once the Open Choice option, vaunted by the site, was checked, it</span><br>
<span class="">can not be undone because the article is published online in a freely accessible form before</span><br>
<span>the payment is made and the publisher refuses to cancel the Open Access option.<br>
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<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">This mechanism is not very far from a forced sale, a practice prohibited by the article
</span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="gmail-OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><span lang="FR"><a href="https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006069565&idArticle=LEGIARTI000024039758">L122-3</a></span></span>
of the French consumer code</span><br>
<span class="">and makes impossible any use of the right of withdrawal, as provided e.g. by the article
</span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="gmail-OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><span lang="FR"><a href="https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006069565&idArticle=LEGIARTI000006292075&dateTexte=&categorieLien=cid">121-20-12</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">
of the French consumer code.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class=""></span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class=""><br>
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</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">The case in question concerns a researcher who did not imagine that a publisher to whom he ceded his rights (without compensation)<br>
for the dissemination of his paper would </span><span class="">ask him to pay for this article to be posted on Open Access, while the journal or</span><br>
<span class="">Proceedings containing this article continue to be sold to institutions.<br>
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Furthermore the three</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""> cases reported to me concern only the community of mathematicians working in France.</span><br>
<span class="">So there are probably other colleagues in other countries and for other disciplines.<br>
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Sincerely Yours<br>
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Frédéric Hélein<br>
Professor, University Paris Diderot<br>
Scientific Chair of the <a href="http://www.rnbm.org/">RNBM</a> (French National Network of Mathematics Libraries)<br>
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