Dear Mark:
Thank you for your very useful analysis. This is the sort of information that needs to be widely disseminated to journal publishers. If they can be convinced that self archiving will not destroy their journals, they are likely to become more receptive to the idea of following LANL's lead
As a library director, I second Steve Harnad's observation that
libraries will not quickly cancel journal subscriptions because of lanl
or other self-archiving ventures.
With all the many electronic versions of journals now available, very
few paper subscriptions have been cancelled by libraries.
> From: Lee Miller
> Date: 1999-09-22 09:49:28 -0400
> How has the income stream for physics journals been affected by the
> apparently universal use of the LANL archives in physics?
For Physical Review, not much at although online usage of Phys. Rev. D
(about 90% of which appears on LANL) seems
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Lee Miller wrote:
> How has the income stream for physics journals been affected by the
> apparently universal use of the LANL archives in physics?
This question has come up before. The authoritative ans
How has the income stream for physics journals been affected by the
apparently universal use of the LANL archives in physics?
Lee N. Millerphone:(607) 255-3221
Editor Emeritus, Ecology
Ecological Society of America
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