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.
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(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.
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Stevan Harnad
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Received on Tue Jan 13 2004 - 00:49:20 GMT
