[GOAL] Re: Scopus and gold OA: open2closed, is this what we want?

[Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)]

Heather,

The share of OA papers is probably way lower, because those 14% OA journals have on average much less volumes indexed in Scopus than the paywall journals. I wouldn't be surprised if it was below 5%.

But was is more important, no one buys Scopus for the (abstract) content. Libraries license Scopus for its search functionality, citation links, author disambiguation, indexing terms, advanced search capabilities, affiliation histories, book chapter indexing etc etc.

Access to the abstracts is in most cases free at the publisher platforms, no matter whether it concerns OA journals or paywalled journals.

So I think it would not be fair to say Scopus is making big money out of Open Access content the way you do.

Best,
Jeroen



Op 13 okt. 2014 om 17:11 heeft "Heather Morrison" <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca> het volgende geschreven:

> Elsevier's for-pay Scopus service includes "More than 20,000 peer-reviewed journals, including 2,800 gold open access journals" from: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview
> 
> 14% of the journal content for this commercial toll access service comes from gold OA.
> 
> When OA advocates insist on granting blanket commercial rights downstream, is this the kind of future for scholarly communication that is envisaged, one that takes free content licensed CC-BY or CC-BY-SA and locks it up in service packages for sale for those who can pay?
> 
> One of the visions of the original Budapest Open Access Initiative is that OA will  "share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich". I argue that if the poor are convinced or coerced to give away their work for blanket commercial rights downstream and the result is services like Scopus, this is a much more straightforward sharing of the poor with the rich. A researcher in a developing country giving away their work as CC-BY gets the benefit of wider dissemination of their own work, but may be shut out of services like Scopus, the next generation of tools designed to advance research. 
> BOAI: http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read
> 
> Thanks very much to Elsevier, Scopus, and participating gold OA publishers for a great example of the downside of granting blanket commercial rights downstream.
> 
> best,
> 
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