From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:35:27 +0100

On 1st June, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP), along with the Publishers Association (PA), distributed a press
release advertising the results of a survey that had recently been
commissioned.

The objective of the survey had been to estimate the likely impact of making
journals freely available after a six-month embargo — as many advocates of
Green Open Access (OA) have been proposing.

The results of the survey, the press release said, suggest that a six-month
embargo would cause  research libraries to cancel 65% of their Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences journals and 44% of their Scientific, Technical and Medical
journal subscriptions. “ALPSP is very concerned about the effect this may
have on non-profit publishers, many of whom may not survive,” commented
ALPSP’s Chief Executive Audrey McCulloch.

The press release indicated that the report had been prepared by Linda Bennett
of Gold Leaf.

An email Q&A with McCulloch about the survey, and the report, can be reader
here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/oa-interviews-audrey-mcculloch-alpsp.html

Richard Poynder