From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 04:12:21 +0000

>But what you can be pretty sure of is that when a high enough percentage
>of Green becomes available to allow cancellation, it will not be from one
>or a few journals, but from all of them. So the Green will not be a basis
>for deciding to cancel this one rather than that one.

I can be pretty sure of that, can I? Hmmm. Is there some rational basis
for the belief that no individual journal will become substantially Green
until all journals have done so? Is someone coordinating the timing across
all publishers?

More to the point, I have to wonder what is going to happen to the
publishers on whom Green OA depends, once Green has taken over to the
point that libraries can (as you put it) "rational(ly) and
constructive(ly)" cancel all their subscriptions. With all the
subscriptions cancelled, how will publishers continue to provide the
services on which the Green OA model depends for its viability?

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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