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abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-17

Summary:

"This week the STM Frankfurt Conference was told that a shift away from gold Open Access towards green would mean some publishers would not be ‘viable’ according to a story in The Bookseller. The argument was that support for green OA in the US and China would mean some publishers will collapse and the community will ‘regret it’. It is not surprising that the publishing industry is worried about a move away from gold OA policies. They have proved extraordinarily lucrative in the UK with Wiley and Elsevier each pocketing an extra £2 million thanks to the RCUK block grant funds to support the RCUK policy on Open Access. But let’s get something straight. There is no evidence that permitting researchers to make a copy of their work available in a repository results in journal subscriptions being cancelled. None ..."

Link:

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=331

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.policies oa.usa oa.china oa.green oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.sustainability oa.cancellations oa.repositories oa.economics_of oa.asia

Date tagged:

10/17/2015, 08:34

Date published:

10/17/2015, 07:07