From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:46:56 +0100

A new Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has
been published. This one is with Philippe Terheggen Director Journal
Development and Support at Elsevier. Terheggen, who is responsible for
all 2,500 of Elsevier’s journals, is the second representative of a
traditional commercial publisher to take part in this series.

As the largest legacy journal publisher, Elsevier tends to attract
more criticism from the OA movement than other publishers. One could
argue, however, that it has conspired in this by doing more than other
publishers to try to derail OA — not least by aggressively supporting
the infamous Research Works Act (RWA) in 2011. Today, however,
Elsevier accepts that OA has become mainstream, that it needs to
embrace it, and that it may not turn out to be the monster that the
publisher assumed it to be. As Philippe Terheggen says in the Q&A, “In
my opinion, we’re past the notion of OA as a threat to publishers as
there are many examples of OA publishers who run a perfectly healthy
business.”

The  Q&A can be read here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/elseviers-philippe-terheggen-on-state.html

Richard Poynder