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

[Peter Murray-Rust]

=== Forwarded from Mike Taylor ====
> Date: Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM
> From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com>
> To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>
> Subject: [GOAL] Re: Does Green OA have a negative effect on journal
> revenues?
>
> 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/

Thanks, Stevan, this is very helpful.

> 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.
> [snip snip snip]

I really don't need the sermon, though. If you're read any of my
writings, such as "Academic publishers have become the enemies of
science" in The Guardian
(
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science
)
or "Academic publishing Is broken" in The Scientist, you'll know that
I very far from being a publishers' apologist. In the current case, I
am trying to formulate a helpful  response to an inquiry from a
representative of a learned society that is considering whether and
how to go OA.

On 6 July 2012 14:24, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I should point out that Mike Taylor is not an academic  - he is
> #scholarlypoor  and works in the software industry [...]
> He fights tirelessly for Open Access.

Just for the record -- these kind words are not 100% accurate. I *am*
an academic (research associate at the University of Bristol), I
merely don't get paid for it! :-)

-- 
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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