From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:42:32 -0500 When I was director of Penn State University Press, all of our then dozen journals followed a Green OA policy. There was no evidence whatsoever that having such a policy resulted in a decline in subscriptions. Moreover, since the majority of income for our journals came via Project Muse, which sells e-journals in big packages, there was even less reason to fear that going Green OA would undermine revenue generation. Sandy Thatcher > From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:19:56 -0700 > > Rick Anderson spotted the Achilles' heel of the Green OA, which in my > opinion - as well as the Greek hero - is doomed. > > The more authors will support Green OA (and put their papers on their > websites) the less initiative for the library to buy the journal. > > Making pressure on a poor publisher to adopt Green OA has its final > aim to destroy the publisher. > > When historians of Green OA movement go back to its origin, they would > question S. Harnad's motives in destroying publishers. > > Ari Belenkiy