From: Tom Reinsfelder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:53 PM


Here's a recent article that profiles some new publishing initiatives and
offers examples of how libraries can support pilot projects and other
transformational approaches to open access.
*"Using library funds to support open access publishing through
crowdfunding: Going beyond article processing charges."   *
https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/downloads/6m900nt15x

As for the question of the "free riders" or the issue of some paying more
than others there is some interesting commentary and analysis here:

HB Hansmann, “The Role of Nonprofit Enterprise.” Yale Law Journal (1980).
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylj/vol89/iss5/1/
See pages 848-850 about public goods and free riders.

"the free-rider psychology is far from universal; in many situations people
are willing to contribute toward the production of public goods"

-- 
Tom Reinsfelder
Penn State University Libraries - Mont Alto



From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:58:38 -0400

Hello, Ivy:  So this kind of shift seems to require a new financial and
infrastructural basis for research article publishing.  What I mean is, if
CDL and other institutions - those who publish a lot of research --
negotiate Publish + Read agreements, then increasingly, the read-only
institutions will not need (nor want?) to pay for the reading part.  The
research-intensive institutions would increasingly bear the costs of the
system, much moreso than today.  I've been thinking about the many possible
downstream consequences of what we might loosely call the OA2020 movement
and am interested in what UC and other folks' thinking is about the how the
underpinnings of journal and article publishing will need to change (quite
drastically?).  Thank you for your thoughts, Ann


On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:11 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Ivy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:09:10 +0000
>
> Hi Rick,
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> You’re such a stickler for language…  ;-)
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> Without wishing to assert that anything I say here represents the views of
> the entirety of the University of California, since many hands went into
> drafting this statement, and of course we are a large and diverse system –
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> We would like to see a scholarly publishing system emerge in which funding
> for publication does not interfere with or impose barriers to dissemination
> and re-use.  As a public institution that takes its public service mission
> seriously, we believe the fruits of UC scholarship should be open to the
> citizens and scholars of California, the nation, and the world.  Clearly
> this won’t happen overnight, and certainly there are disciplines, genres,
> and formats that present more challenges than others.  The statement we’ve
> drafted refers specifically to the research journal literature, but like
> many other institutions, we have experiments and initiatives underway in
> the monographic space as well.   And while many consider open access more
> feasible in the sciences than in non-STEM fields, making the humanities and
> social sciences literature open is arguably even more important as a means
> of informing public policy and stimulating intellectual inquiry.  So this
> is just to say that we would hope that toll access publishing would
> eventually – and sooner rather than later if we can marshal the collective
> will – operate under a business model or models that are no longer
> predicated on restricting and metering access.
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> So my answer is yes – we envision a world that puts an end to toll access
> scholarly publishing.
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> But let’s also avoid the mistake of making the perfect the enemy of the
> good – the more we can accomplish, the better, and the sooner, the better.
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> Ivy Anderson
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> Associate Executive Director & Director of Collections
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> California Digital Library
>
> University of California, Office of the President
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