Open access threat receding, suggests briefing | News | Times Higher Education

"The threat posed by open access to the profits of the world’s largest scientific, technology, engineering and mathematics publisher is fading, an investors’ report has said. In the report, released to investors by Bernstein Research on September 24, the analysts say their previous downgrading of Reed Elsevier stock, in 2012, was based on an expectation that the political push in Europe for a shift to full open access would have 'negative consequences on the economics' of the company, leading to a fall in its operating profits of between 6 and 22 per cent. However, in their latest report – published on the website of open access blogger Richard Poynder - the researchers now observe that open access 'appears to inflict little or no damage on the leading subscription publishers' ..."