[GOAL] The OA Interviews: Audrey McCulloch, ALPSP Chief Executive

[Richard Poynder]

On 1st June, the Association of Learned and Professional Society 
Publishers (ALPSP), along with the Publishers Association (PA), 
distributed a press release advertising the results of a survey that had 
recently been commissioned.

The objective of the survey had been to estimate the likely impact of 
making journals freely available after a six-month embargo --- as many 
advocates of Green Open Access (OA) have been proposing.

The results of the survey, the press release said, suggest that a 
six-month embargo would causeresearch libraries to cancel 65% of their 
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences journals and 44% of their 
Scientific, Technical and Medical journal subscriptions. "ALPSP is very 
concerned about the effect this may have on non-profit publishers, many 
of whom may not survive," commented ALPSP's Chief Executive Audrey 
McCulloch.

The press release indicated that the report had been prepared by Linda 
Bennett of Gold Leaf.

An email Q&A with McCulloch about the survey, and the report, can be 
reader here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/oa-interviews-audrey-mcculloch-alpsp.html

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