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

[Laurent Romary]

This does not explain why, when the papers where freely available online, we observed an increase in usage for Publishers’ web sites…
Laurent


> Le 22 oct. 2015 à 15:57, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) <A.Wise at elsevier.com> a écrit :
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> Because the journals in the PEER study used publisher-set embargo periods…
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> -          Alicia
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> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of David Prosser
> Sent: 22 October 2015 14:42
> To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
> Subject: [GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'
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> Marc’s post reminds me that there was the EC-funded, STM-run PEER project that attempted to do exactly this comparison:
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> http://www.stm-assoc.org/public-affairs/resources/peer/ <http://www.stm-assoc.org/public-affairs/resources/peer/>
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> One of the aims of PEER was to discover the effect of Green OA on journal viability - for the journals that took part there were no negative effects on their viability. 
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> David
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> On 22 Oct 2015, at 13:50, Couture Marc <marc.couture at teluq.ca <mailto:marc.couture at teluq.ca>> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> What we would like to see here as evidence is something like what is being done about open access to scholarly monographs: rigorous studies, involving control groups and close monitoring, testing the effect of making a toll-free copy available.
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> I’m aware of two such studies, both made as part of the OAPEN initiative: one in the Netherlands and one in the UK (still ongoing, but preliminary results have been released).
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> Interestingly, both found no measurable effect of toll-free availability on the sales. The only “effect” of toll-free access is a tremendous increase of use, as measured by summing the sales and the (much more numerous) downloads.
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> Here also, fears that scholarly publishing is incompatible, or endangered by OA were, and still are, regularly aired.
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> It’s possible that things are not the same for journal publishing. But, pending reliable results, we simply don’t know, and predictions as to a loss of subscriptions are nothing but speculation (or hypotheses).
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> For details: http://www.oapen.nl/images/attachments/article/58/OAPEN-NL-final-report.pdf <http://www.oapen.nl/images/attachments/article/58/OAPEN-NL-final-report.pdf>  and http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/wp-uploads/2014/07/JACKSON-Oxford-OA-Monographs-June-2014.pdf <http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/wp-uploads/2014/07/JACKSON-Oxford-OA-Monographs-June-2014.pdf>
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> Marc Couture
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Laurent Romary
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