From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:49:09 -0700

And what is mainstream practice now?

12-month embargo? 18-month?

Ari Belenkiy


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:32 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:35:27 +0100
>
> On 1st June, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
> (ALPSP), along with the Publishers Association (PA), distributed a press
> release advertising the results of a survey that had recently been
> commissioned.
>
> The objective of the survey had been to estimate the likely impact of making
> journals freely available after a six-month embargo — as many advocates of
> Green Open Access (OA) have been proposing.
>
> The results of the survey, the press release said, suggest that a six-month
> embargo would cause  research libraries to cancel 65% of their Arts, Humanities
> and Social Sciences journals and 44% of their Scientific, Technical and Medical
> journal subscriptions. “ALPSP is very concerned about the effect this may
> have on non-profit publishers, many of whom may not survive,” commented
> ALPSP’s Chief Executive Audrey McCulloch.
>
> The press release indicated that the report had been prepared by Linda Bennett
> of Gold Leaf.
>
> An email Q&A with McCulloch about the survey, and the report, can be reader
> here:
>
> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/oa-interviews-audrey-mcculloch-alpsp.html
>
> Richard Poynder