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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">Because the journals in the PEER study used publisher-set embargo periods…<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""><span style="mso-list:Ignore" class="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" class="">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class="">Alicia<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p>
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<b class="">On Behalf Of </b>David Prosser<br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b> 22 October 2015 14:42<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> [GOAL] Re: BLOG: Unlocking Research 'Half-life is half the story'<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal">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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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">On 22 Oct 2015, at 13:50, Couture Marc <<a href="mailto:marc.couture@teluq.ca" class="">marc.couture@teluq.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class="">Hi all,</span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class=""> </span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class="">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.</span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class=""> </span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class="">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).</span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class=""> </span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class="">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.</span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class=""> </span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class="">Here also, fears that scholarly publishing is incompatible, or endangered by OA were, and still are, regularly aired.</span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class=""> </span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class="">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).</span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class=""> </span><span lang="FR-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" class="">For details:
<a href="http://www.oapen.nl/images/attachments/article/58/OAPEN-NL-final-report.pdf" class="">
http://www.oapen.nl/images/attachments/article/58/OAPEN-NL-final-report.pdf</a> and
<a href="http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/wp-uploads/2014/07/JACKSON-Oxford-OA-Monographs-June-2014.pdf" class="">
http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/wp-uploads/2014/07/JACKSON-Oxford-OA-Monographs-June-2014.pdf</a>
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