From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 02:33:26 +0000


>I think the important point here, aside from the double-talk Dr. Wise
>continues to employ even after Steven points out the inconsistency, is
>that there is no evidence at all that libraries have or will cancel
>journal subscriptions because of author self-archiving in
>institutional repositories.

Of course, gathering real-world data from imaginary scenarios is
notoriously tough.

So here¹s my question (and this will be awkwardly phrased, sorry): is
anyone aware of a subscription journal for which most or all of the
content is consistently self-archived in repositories? If there are ten or
twenty such journals out there, it would be very interesting to see
whether and to what degree subscriptions have been affected since the
self-archiving started ‹ and to monitor that trend over time.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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