Re: Estimates of Conventional Journals, OA, and Repositories?

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

THough I missed David G's talk, I wonder if there's another comparison
which should not be overlooked - relative use of journals in Big Deals?  
Judging from the evidence I've read from OhioLink, Academic Press etc,
making material available to users gives rise to increased use of that
material, irrespective (as you would expect) of whether the library has
paid for it

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Davis" <ddavis@copyright.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:15 AM
Subject: Estimates of Conventional Journals, OA, and Repositories?

> David Goodman's recent presentation at SLA put the question of scholarly
> publishing futures into the context of 'relative use', as among
> Conventional Journals, OA Journals, and Institutional Repositories. This
> sounds about right to me. Those are indeed the trend lines to watch. Yet
> 'relative use' seems like a difficult metric to assess in detail.
> (Alternatively, I'm just overlooking something obvious; that happens, too.
> ;-)
>
> Does anyone have (or have a reference to) hard estimates of the current
> totals for Conventional Journals, OA Journals, and Institutional
> Repositories? If so, please post to the list.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dave Davis
> ddavis@copyright.com