On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Sally Morris wrote: > I think the CILIP response ignores the fact that new licensing arrangements > from publishers have actually significantly increased the percentage of > available literature which library patrons can now access. I'm not saying > it's anything like 100 percent, but it is much improved
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0401&L=lis-cilip&T=0&F=&S=&P=2176 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3407.html Licensing improves the return on the tolls for the HAVES who can afford the tolls. Open access is about the HAVE-NOTS who cannot afford the tolls. The relevant facts are these: (1) There are 24,000 peer-reviewed research journals worldwide, publishing 2.5 million articles per year. (2) 23,000 of these 24,000 (>95%) are toll-access journals. (Tolls are: subscriptions, licenses, pay-to-view.) (3) It is true of every single toll-access article that (the institutions of) most its potential users worldwide cannot afford access to it, no matter how good the licensing arrangements. (Call that the worldwide "HARVARD/HAVE-NOT" ratio.) (4) The above (3) would continue to be true even if every one of the toll-access journals were sold *at cost." (5) Consequently it is true of every single toll-access article that it is losing most of its potential research impact -- daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and cumulatively. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0025.gif (6) Consequently, the research community and the progress, productivity and impact of research require that toll-access for the HARVARDS be supplemented with open-access for the HAVE-NOTS, regardless of the licensing arrangements. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0047.gif http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#29.Sitting Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org Hypermail Archive: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php