From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:33:30 -0800

What's happened with the subscriptions to this journal?

Or were they secured in advance as a part of a "big deal"?

Ari Belenkiy
SFU
Canada


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Oosman, Aalia" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:51:53 +0000
>
> Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library &
> Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to
> post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an
> institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year
> pilot scheme, first introduced in 2011, has now been extended for at
> least a further year to enable Routledge to consider alternative
> approaches to copyright and to find sustainable ways of extending
> author rights.
>
> As part of the pilot, a survey was conducted by Routledge to canvas
> opinions on the Library & Information Science Author Rights initiative
> and also investigated author and researcher behaviour and views on
> author rights policies, embargos and posting work to repositories.
> The survey, eliciting over 500 responses, offers a fascinating insight
> into the current thinking of authors & researchers globally across the
> discipline of Library & Information Science. Having the option to
> upload their work to a repository directly after publication is very
> important to these authors: more than 2/3 of respondents rated the
> ability to upload their work to repositories at 8, 9, or 10 out of 10,
> with the vast majority saying they feel strongly that authors should
> have this right.
>
> The implementation of the author rights pilot saw the number of
> respondents who would recommend Routledge as a publishing outlet
> increase by 34% while the average willingness to publish with
> Routledge on a scale of 1 to 10 increased from 6.6 to 8.3.  The shift
> in response from Library and Information Science professionals towards
> Routledge’s publishing program before and after the launch of this
> initiative practically demonstrates the enthusiasm for immediate
> upload of non-embargoed content within the library community.
> Routledge is dedicated to developing publishing models that suit the
> needs of the Library & Information Science community.
>
> Tracy Roberts, Editorial Director comments “It is clear that the
> ability to upload articles to a repository directly after publication
> is a key concern for LIS authors. We are delighted to announce that we
> have now extended this pilot to the end of 2014 supporting research
> within this discipline, as well as affording us additional time to
> monitor the effects of this pilot study.”
>
> For further details on the pilot program, visit:
> http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/lisrights.asp
>
> For more information, please contact:
>
> Stacy Sieck, Associate Editor, Taylor & Francis Group
> email: [log in to unmask]