From: Graham Triggs <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:33:11 +0000

On 20 December 2013 13:41, Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> So why don't subscription publishers use that distinction in their policies and provide a simple, human-readable-only version freely, on their own web sites (findability, transparency as regards usage), while keeping the fully functional, machine-readable version for the professional scientist (power-user) covered by subscription pay-walls?

Because if the provisional version was sufficiently human readable,
then all of the subscriptions for providing basic access would be
unnecessary, and cancelled.

Licencing the enhanced, machine-readable version would only occur when
someone justifies that they have a project to text-mine the corpus. At
which point, and despite having theoretically "freed up" the budget,
the cost would mean that most text-mining efforts never even get off
the ground.

And so free [to author] publishing as subscription publishers
currently do would be unsustainable.

G