From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:09:03 -0400

On 2013-10-05, at 8:42 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Is there some rational basis
> for the belief that no individual journal will become substantially Green
> until all journals have done so?

Globally, self-archiving (and self-archiving mandates) grow anarchically,
article by article, not journal by journal.

> what is going to happen to the
> publishers on whom Green OA depends, once Green has taken over to the
> point that libraries can... cancel all their subscriptions. With all the
> subscriptions cancelled, how will publishers continue to provide the
> services on which the Green OA model depends for its viability?

By downsizing to just the provision of peer review, paid for per round
of refereeing. If not, their titles, ed-boards, authorships and readerships
will simply migrate to other, Fair-Gold publishers, who will.

Stevan Harnaf