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<div class="">On 5 Jan 2016, at 08:13, Jan Velterop <<a href="mailto:velterop@gmail.com" class="">velterop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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This is most interesting, Arthur. Is this a unique case, as far as you know? Is there anything that makes this possible at the U of Tasmania but not elsewhere?</div>
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You say that the economics stack up. Intuitively I feel that must be right. I also think pay-per-view as substitute for subscriptions is what many publishers fear most. Of course, if the idea of pay-per-view instead of subscriptions gains traction, you may
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<div>Re PPV, here at Imperial we operate a British Library ILL (inter library loan) scheme, which about 3 years ago went fully electronic, resulting in one receiving by email about two days later a PDF of the requested article which was otherwise unavailable
via subscription. The PDF came with an extraordinary set of rights management restrictions. As I recollect,</div>
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<div>1. The PDF self expired after 30 days. This meant you could not place it into any kind of local personal digital library (Mendeley and the like)</div>
<div>2. You could print it only once as your permanent record</div>
<div>3. You could not then make further copies of your print, eg to pass on to students, colleagues etc, who would have to make their own ILL request (fee £8 I believe).</div>
<div>4. This would apply even if the original WAS open access (although why you would request such?)</div>
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<div>There may have been more (and things might have changed since then) but when I queried the restrictions with our head librarian, I was told it was imposed by the British library, who in turn were adhering to British copyright law imposed by the “British
creative industries” lobbying of Government. I would love to hear from someone that this has now changed (I have not made such a request for about 14 months now. That request by the way was for Alan Turing’s “The chemical basis of morphogenesis” dating
from ~1952 and for which I encountered the above).</div>
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