With this debate underway, I've been trying to picture a reasonable workflow
that would assess the rate of immediate green OA via publisher's self-archiving
policy and use it effectively in a collections process. I have been unable to
come up with any scenario that seems solid enough to even
Good points, Ellen. One to add, inspired by Rick: high-cost journals tend to
be part of big deals. Even if a library did all this work to identify journals
with free content, publishers would not decrease the cost of the big deal and
if libraries try to cancel the big deal, Rick's experience
Ellen, the very detailed and time-intensive process you outline below is one
that would arguably be necessary in order to perform an ongoing, comprehensive
analysis of article availability under a Green OA regime, but I think it's much
more than would be necessary in order to make reasonable
