From: "Bargheer, Margo Friederike" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 06:45:25 +0000

Hi All,

At our research library we cancel journals when budget constraints
(usually caused by raising prices from stock market noted publishers)
force us to do so. The choice we make is based on price plus faculty
use and whether we can actually cancel them. So if journals have a
price worth saving, faculty shows little use and does not object a
cancellation, we'll cancel, if we can.

It might be well the case that there is little use from scholars due
to a high prevalence of easily accessable material caused by green OA.
But if that held true, it would only show that scholars and their
institutions have decided to organise the scholarly communication in
this particular way. If that scholarly choice is in conflict with
publisher's revenue expectations they better adjust their business
model along the needs of scholars and their libraries instead of
tightening their OA policies.
Best
Margo

Electronic Publishing
SUB Göttingen
Margo Bargheer


> Am 27.05.2015 um 05:04 schrieb LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 02:12:03 +0000
>
> Thanks very much for this useful response, Christina. One clarification:
>
>> Physics has the highest levels and longest history of green OA. The
>> evidence from physics to date is that high levels of green OA don¹t
>> cause journal cancellations.
>
> I agree that this is true at the discipline level, but what I¹m
> particularly interested in is evidence at the journal level, since that¹s
> where subscription and cancellation decisions are made. (You can¹t cut
> "physics journals," you can only cut particular physics journals.)
>
> So what I¹m still interested in knowing is whether anyone is aware of
> examples of particular subscription journals most or all of whose content
> is available for free in Green OA versions. (Of course, as Anthony points
> out, the concept of "available" is kind of squishy; if the content is
> technically available but hard to find, that will obviously make it less
> likely that its availability would result in subscription cancellations.)
>
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> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
> Marriott Library, University of Utah
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