[GOAL] BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'

[Danny Kingsley]

<apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

You may be interested in the latest Unlocking Research blog: 'Half-life 
is half the story' https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=331

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This week theSTM Frankfurt Conference 
<http://www.stm-assoc.org/events/frankfurt-conference-2015/>was told 
that a shift away from gold Open Access towards green would mean some 
publishers would not be 'viable' according to a story in/The Bookseller/ 
<http://www.thebookseller.com/news/green-oa-will-hit-publishers-314667>. 
The argument was that support for green OA in the US and China would 
mean some publishers will collapse and the community will 'regret it'.

It is not surprising that the publishing industry is worried about a 
move away from gold OA policies. They have proved extraordinarily 
lucrative in the UK withWiley and Elsevier each pocketing an extra £2 
million 
<https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/publishers-share-10m-in-apc-payments/2019685.article>thanks 
to the RCUK block grant funds to support theRCUK policy on Open Access 
<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/>.

But let's get something straight. There is*no evidence that permitting 
researchers to make a copy of their work available in a repository 
results in journal subscriptions being cancelled*. None.

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