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In 2014, University of California, Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal subscriptions in the U.S. market entirely to an Article Processing Charge business model, known also as “Gold Open Access.” We contacted MacKenzie Smith, one of the principal investigators, in order to get her reflections on the process of gathering the data, and to discuss some implications of the findings. The interview suggests that the “Pay It Forward” model could be successful over time, following a necessarily complex transition period. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In early 2008, students approached the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Library with their concerns about the high prices of printed course readers, which are filled with content the library owns or leases. Through investigations of electronic resource licenses, coursepack pilot projects, and campus partnerships, the library worked to reduce the cost of course readers, at times significantly. The exercise highlighted important issues and considerations regarding the licensing of electronic materials, and stressed the importance of communicating specific license terms to users via an electronic resource management system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]