From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:42:32 -0500

When I was director of Penn State University Press, all of our then
dozen journals followed a Green OA policy. There was no evidence
whatsoever that having such a policy resulted in a decline in
subscriptions.  Moreover, since the majority of income for our
journals came via Project Muse, which sells e-journals in big
packages, there was even less reason to fear that going Green OA would
undermine revenue generation.

Sandy Thatcher

> From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:19:56 -0700
>
> Rick Anderson spotted the Achilles' heel of the Green OA, which in my
> opinion - as well as the Greek hero -  is doomed.
>
> The more authors will support Green OA (and put their papers on their
> websites) the less initiative for the library to buy the journal.
>
> Making pressure on a poor publisher to adopt Green OA has its final
> aim to destroy the publisher.
>
> When historians of Green OA movement go back to its origin, they would
> question S. Harnad's motives in destroying publishers.
>
> Ari Belenkiy