RE: Lancet on open access

[Stephen Drage <stephen@newleftreview.org>]

All our back files for the online version of New Left Review come from our
own archive, and we've been publishing the journal bi-monthly, more or
less, since 1960 to date. Perhaps this isn't the example to refute your
suggestion as we're only a small independent publisher with the one
journal. Anyway, I'd thought I'd let you know that such publishers do
exist.

Stephen Drage

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-----Original Message-----
From: Hamaker, Chuck [mailto:cahamake@email.uncc.edu]
Sent: 19 November 2003 23:00
To: 'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'
Subject: Lancet on open access

[SNIP]

Because as I said before publishers do not have a long term history of
preserving their own publications--they have to go to libraries to get
copies of what they published. In spite of Elsevier's recent response I
haven't had a publisher yet indicate all copies they digitized for back
files came exclusively from the publisher's in-house archives. Pergamon
MIGHT have been the exception.

Chuck

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