From: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:31:32 +0000
Anthony,
I agree that the freemium model doesn’t provide everything that SciHub
does, but I was responding to Rick’s points about legal and
frictionless access. I also know that everyone, when given the chance,
likes to download for free, but free-to-read is not a bad option if
downloading is a premium feature. As I argued last year
(https://goo.gl/SYDxto) Green and Gold don’t seem to be the models
that will ever get 100% of scholarly content freely accessible on the
day of publication, so it’s time to look for others. Freemium, OECD
and Open Editions style, may not be perfect but it means 100% of our
content can be read by anyone on day 1 for free. At OECD we are
continuing to explore the boundaries of freemium - with making basic
PDF versions freely available to download a definite objective - but
this is dependent on our finding other ways to provide sufficient
premium value from new services for subscribers (or find new income
from alternative sources). We’ve tried Gold (but our authors’ funders
are not interested), we can see that Green is unsatisfactory - so
we’re actively exploring an alternative model and, so far, it’s
working well and we believe others should be joining us in this
exploration.
Toby Green
OECD
On 20 Feb 2018, at 03:52, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:19:45 +0000
But SciHub is not just making a read only version available and OECD
is not making all the world's literature available in any form.
We know that people who have access already are going to SciHub for
content and they are going for books and I guess for premium versions
of OECD also.
I thought that I could send each segment of a free OECD publication
to myself and then download but what a bore I now find that I cannot
even do that.
Scholars want to download
(http://ciber-research.eu/download/20150923-Boldly_Beyond_Downloads.pdf
) and keep and if they can do that via SciHub nothing that OECD does
will make a difference
Anthony
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From: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:10:53 +0000
Rick,
As I’m sure you’re aware, Open Editions and OECD have each developed
freemium open access models that provide frictionless, check-out-free,
access to the full text of our content to non-subscribers.
Non-subscribers don’t need to register, they can simply turn up and
read their fill - there are no embargoes and the read-only versions
are facsimiles of the versions of record. In OECD’s case,
non-subscriber (and subscribers) can share and embed our read-only
files on social platforms and websites. Subscribers get access to
premium versions of the content, basically, downloadable, actionable
files, plus off-line support. Happily, both Open Editions and OECD are
finding that our freemium business models are generating sufficient
revenues to foot our bills, pay staff and fund investments - as well
as serving a growing readership on a legal and legitimate basis.
I would argue that our model, if adopted by other scholarly
publishers, would make SciHub largely redundant. Besides being legal
and legitimate, I believe freemium is the fastest route to making all
science freely accessible to all in a financially sustainable manner.
Toby Green
OECD
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