=== Forwarded from Mike Taylor ==== > Date: Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM > From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> > To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected]> > Subject: [GOAL] Re: Does Green OA have a negative effect on journal > revenues? > > Alma Swan has published the response of both the American Physical Society > and the Institute of Physics -- from the discipline with the most and the > longest-standing Green OA, near 100% in high energy physics and astrophysics > for almost 2 decades: Both publishers report that there is no correlation > between Green OA growth and subscriptions: > http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/261006/
Thanks, Stevan, this is very helpful. > I think it is time for the research community (researchers, universities, > funders) to stop this needless and self-damaging preoccupation with the > protection of publishers' current subscription revenue streams, which are > flowing amply in many cases opulently. > [snip snip snip] I really don't need the sermon, though. If you're read any of my writings, such as "Academic publishers have become the enemies of science" in The Guardian ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science ) or "Academic publishing Is broken" in The Scientist, you'll know that I very far from being a publishers' apologist. In the current case, I am trying to formulate a helpful response to an inquiry from a representative of a learned society that is considering whether and how to go OA. On 6 July 2012 14:24, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > I should point out that Mike Taylor is not an academic - he is > #scholarlypoor and works in the software industry [...] > He fights tirelessly for Open Access. Just for the record -- these kind words are not 100% accurate. I *am* an academic (research associate at the University of Bristol), I merely don't get paid for it! :-) -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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