From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 19:55:43 -0400

Kevin,

I have spoken to librarians who have told me that they consider
cancelling subscriptions when a significant portion of a journal can
be found in OA IRs.  They are probably a small minority (at least that
would be my guess).  Elsevier's concerns may be overblown, but they
are not baseless.

Joe Esposito

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:37 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Kevin Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 23:42:26 +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.  So "understandably" simply elides the
> lack of justification for this statement.
>
>
> Kevin L. Smith, M.L.S., J.D.
> Director, Copyright and Scholarly Communications
> Duke University Libraries