From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:20:28 -0600

For what it's worth, my assumption, when I was director of Penn State
University Press, was that having a Green OA policy posed no threat to
the core market for our dozen journals, because that core market was
Project Muse subscribers that purchased our journals as part of large
aggregations of journals. Perhaps it could marginally affect some
individual library print subscriptions, but those were fast
disappearing anyway, as were individual subscriber print
subscriptions. I cannot, of course, speak for the Press's more recent
experience (since 2009).

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:40:13 +0000
>
> Yes Ari, that is a very relevant question. It would be highly beneficial
> for everybody (publishers, users, subscribers) involved in this discussion
> to have some actual data on this issue. Currently there is no evidence
> that allowing immediate green open access affects subscriptions - despite
> this bogey man constantly being evoked in the debate.
>
> The only way we can resolve it is if we have some data - which can only
> come from the publishers. If it is a real issue, then we can start
> addressing it, but boxing at shadows is pointless. T&F appear on this
> issue at least to be listening to their clients. Hopefully they will share
> some data.
>
> Danny
>
> Dr Danny Kingsley
> Executive Officer
> Australian Open Access Support Group
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> w: wwww.aoasg.org.au
> t: @openaccess_oz
>
>
>
>
> On 27/01/14 11:31 AM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:33:30 -0800
>>
>> What's happened with the subscriptions to this journal?
>>
>> Or were they secured in advance as a part of a "big deal"?
>>
>> Ari Belenkiy
>> SFU
>> Canada
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>  From: "Oosman, Aalia" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>  Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:51:53 +0000
>>>
>>>  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library &
>>>  Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to
>>>  post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an
>>>  institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year
>>>  pilot scheme, first introduced in 2011, has now been extended for at
>>>  least a further year to enable Routledge to consider alternative
>>>  approaches to copyright and to find sustainable ways of extending
>>>  author rights.
>>>
>>>  As part of the pilot, a survey was conducted by Routledge to canvas
>>>  opinions on the Library & Information Science Author Rights initiative
>>>  and also investigated author and researcher behaviour and views on
>>>  author rights policies, embargos and posting work to repositories.
>>>  The survey, eliciting over 500 responses, offers a fascinating insight
>>>  into the current thinking of authors & researchers globally across the
>>>  discipline of Library & Information Science. Having the option to
>>>  upload their work to a repository directly after publication is very
>>>  important to these authors: more than 2/3 of respondents rated the
>>>  ability to upload their work to repositories at 8, 9, or 10 out of 10,
>>>  with the vast majority saying they feel strongly that authors should
>>>  have this right.
>>>
>>>  The implementation of the author rights pilot saw the number of
>>>  respondents who would recommend Routledge as a publishing outlet
>>>  increase by 34% while the average willingness to publish with
>>>  Routledge on a scale of 1 to 10 increased from 6.6 to 8.3.  The shift
>>>  in response from Library and Information Science professionals towards
>>>  Routledge's publishing program before and after the launch of this
>>>  initiative practically demonstrates the enthusiasm for immediate
>>>  upload of non-embargoed content within the library community.
>>>  Routledge is dedicated to developing publishing models that suit the
>>>  needs of the Library & Information Science community.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Tracy Roberts, Editorial Director comments "It is clear that the
>>>  ability to upload articles to a repository directly after publication
>>>  is a key concern for LIS authors. We are delighted to announce that we
>>>  have now extended this pilot to the end of 2014 supporting research
>>>  within this discipline, as well as affording us additional time to
>>>  monitor the effects of this pilot study."
>>>
>>>  For further details on the pilot program, visit:
>>>  http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/lisrights.asp
>>>
>>>  For more information, please contact:
>>>
>>>  Stacy Sieck, Associate Editor, Taylor & Francis Group
>>>  email: [log in to unmask]