From: Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:08:46 -0500

On those "living wills"...  If a journal has debts when it goes under,
creditors may be able to force sale of assets, including copyright
holdings.  So, if the journal goes bankrupt, then it can be forced to
sell the journal holdings.  The "living will" represents a wish, not a
guarantee, and maybe not even a likelihood.

-Wilhelmina Randtke


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:20 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:34:53 +0000
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> Though the nice thing about OA articles is that they can reside in
> many places at once, and so the chances of those articles getting lost
> are much lower than if and when a traditional journal or publisher
> disappears. Some traditional publishers have made 'living wills', but
> not all. And if they haven't, there may be a ©-orphan problem when
> they go under. No such problem with OA articles.
>
> The fear of 'predatory' OA journals is a bit of a red herring. There
> are also 'predatory' traditional journals. The difference is the prey.
> For author-side paid OA journals it's the author; for subscription
> journals it's the library AND the author (who may find that his/her
> paper has a circulation of only a few hundred, or even less).
>
> So for authors it always is 'caveat emptor', whether publishing in an
> OA journal or a subscription journal.
>
> Jan Velterop
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> On 13 Mar 2012, at 08:06, LIBLICENSE wrote:
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> From: Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:41:17 -0500
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> Yes, at the journal level the poor quality journals will die.  The
> tragedy will be the quality articles that go down with the poor
> journals, and are lost.  But that's been said before.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:48 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:06:07 +0000
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> Isn't the emergence of all these new journals more like a Cambrian
> Explosion, precipitated by a fundamental change in the environment?
> Evolution will take care of it. The fittest for purpose will survive.
> The others will disappear.
>
> Jan Velterop