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


> On 16 Feb 2018, at 03:17, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 01:24:52 +0000
>
> Adam, I hope I won’t be accused of shouting simply for responding.
>
> You make valid points about the difficulty of negotiating legitimate
> (i.e. legal) access to toll-access content. Sci-Hub’s relative ease of
> use is often invoked when people want to change the subject from other
> salient aspects of Elbakyan’s enterprise, such as her dishonesty, her
> proud ignorance of fundamental points of law, her disregard for the
> rights of others (those whose rights get in the way of her own goals),
> her strange inconsistency when it comes to giving everyone access,
> etc.
>
> But with regard to the ease-and-simplicity question: one of the things
> I’ve been wondering is to what degree it’s possible to make legitimate
> access as easy as stolen access. Granted that publishers (and, we
> ought to admit, libraries) generally do a mediocre job at best when it
> comes to providing friction-free access to content—even for those who
> have legal access to it—to what degree does that represent a failing
> on our part, and to what degree does it suggest that doing things
> legally and ethically will simply often be more trouble than doing
> them illegally and unethically? No matter how easy you make the
> check-out process in a store, it will probably never be as simple as
> simply walking into the store, picking up what you want, and walking
> out with it. (Though Amazon seems to be making some headway in that
> direction right now.) None of that is to say that we shouldn’t do
> much, much better when it comes to our interfaces and authentication
> processes. It’s just to say that I’m not sure how reducible the
> friction is in reality. Surely it can be reduced; but by how much (and
> still remain legitimate or legal)?
>
> One answer to that question might be “The whole concept of ‘illegal
> and unethical access’ is what we need to abandon. All scholarship
> should be freely available to all without any kind of restriction.” To
> which I would say “When you’ve figured out a legal and sustainable way
> of providing free and universal access to all scholarship, the costs
> of which don’t threaten to outweigh the benefits, I’ll be very
> interested to hear about it. You’ll be the first one to figure it
> out.”
>
> ---
> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication Marriott
> Library, University of Utah
> Desk: (801) 587-9989
> Cell: (801) 721-1687
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