From: Charlotte Van Rooyen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 08:30:53 +0100

I hope this news is of interest to readers of liblicense-l readers.

EDP Open, the Open Access publishing arm of EDP Sciences, has just
released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open
Access amongst learned society publishers.

Key findings included:

* Learned societies overwhelmingly agree that Open Access will
inevitably place some learned societies’ journals into financial
jeopardy.

* Competing with large Open Access specialist publishers was also
considered a significant challenge for learned societies.

* More than ever before, with so many journals of dubious origin being
published Open Access, learned societies should look to endorse
content with a stamp of quality and authority.

* Collaboration between learned societies could help in the transition
to Open Access, by pooling resources and sharing complex tasks.

Full details can be found in the press release online at:

http://www.edp-open.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=273&lang=en_GB.utf8%2C+en_GB.UT

The White Paper is also available to be downloaded at:

http://www.edp-open.org/images/stories/doc/EDP_Society_Survey_May_2014_FINAL.pdf.

Please do get in touch with me or Agnès Henri, Publishing Director of
EDP Sciences ([log in to unmask]) if you need any more
information.

Kind regards

Charlotte Van Rooyen
TBI Communications Limited
Tel: +44 (0) 7980287824
Web: www.tbicommunications.com