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Notes:
Two significant quotations:
“So far, paper …” Peter Suber (Journal of Biology) also wrote:
“None of the advantages of traditional scientific journals need be sacrificed in order to provide free online access to scientific journal articles. Objections that open access to scientific journal literature requires the sacrifice of peer-review, revenue, copyright protection, or other strengths of traditional journals, are based on misunderstandings.”
And from Steve Hitchcock et al
“Publishers are collaborating as never before…”
They are not alone in this view – Stevan Harnad has written:
“ publishers are increasingly taking the responsible and constructive position of facilitating self-archiving, by spelling it out in their copyright transfer agreement that authors retain the right to self-archive.”
Still talking about publishers:
Delegates at the APLSP/OSI round table meeting in September 2002 (Open-access journals – will they fly?) “seemed to agree that the OA model was inherently appealing and potentially more sustainable than the subscription model.” points of concern were (a) how much would you need to charge to remain viable? and (b) how would you manage the migration from one model to the other?
Some delegates expressed interest in experimenting with conversion of one or more existing journals to OA, possibly with assistance from SPARC and/or JISC.
