[GOAL] Re: Does Green OA have a negative effect on journal revenues?

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Mike Taylor has asked about Green OA and revenues and I have forwarded
>> his mail here for an authoritative reply.
>>
>> P.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com>
>> Date: Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 9:25 AM
>> Subject: [Open-access] Does Green OA has a negative effect on journal
>> revenues?
>> To: open-access at lists.okfn.org
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've often seen it said that there's no evidence that allowing Green
>> OA has a negative effect on journal revenues. Is there any evidence
>> that it does NOT have a negative effect, or is it just that no-one's
>> done a good study that shows there IS a negative effect?
>>
>> Does anyone have references, either way?
>>
>
> Alma Swan has published the response of both the American Physical Society
> and the Institute of Physics -- from the discipline with the most and the
> longest-standing Green OA, near 100% in high energy physics and
> astrophysics for almost 2 decades: Both publishers report that there is no
> correlation between Green OA growth and subscriptions:
> http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/261006/
>

Thank you for this - but disciplines vary in many respects and it would be
valuable to know about others.

>
> However, in view of the recent, unaccountably publisher-dominated and
> counterproductive Finch Report
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/907-.html
> I think it is time for the research community (researchers, universities,
> funders) to - stop this needless and self-damaging preoccupation with the
> protection of publishers' current subscription revenue streams, which are
> flowing amply in many cases opulently.
>

I should point out that Mike Taylor is not an academic  - he is
#scholarlypoor  and works in the software industry. He is an excellent
example of the type of person disadvantaged by lack of Open Access and Open
data (of whatever flavour). He manages to publish cutting edge
peer-reviewed research in spite of the indifference of the academic
community in recognising the need to communicate their publicly funded
resources outside the ivory tower.

He fights tirelessly for Open Access - including articles in Guardian and
Times Higher Ed and we owe him our support and thanks.

P.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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