Re: Maximising research access vs. minimizing copy-editing errors

[Peter Banks <pbanks@bankspub.com>]

Sally, I do not see anything in the usage report you cite that 
shows " A very, very small percentage of accesses to BMJ's free 
research articles are from patients and the general public."

It may be true, but it would be contrary to the experience of 
some other publishers in medicine.

Peter Banks

On 7/28/06 7:54 PM, "Sally Morris (ALPSP)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org> wrote:

> Apologies for copying the wrong link.  You will find the BMJ data
> at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/aboutsite/visitorstats.shtml - look
> at the 'Annual Online Questionnaire'
>
> Sally Morris, Chief Executive
> Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
> South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
> Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org
>
>> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris
>> (ALPSP)
>> Sent: 28 July 2006 00:36
>> To: Liblicense
>> Subject: Re: Maximising research access vs. minimizing copy-editing errors
>>
>> Maybe we need more information about the actual size of the
>> access problem. Publishers tend, I think, to report fairly low
>> levels of 'turnaways' - those who try to access full text but
>> can't.  If any publishers reading this can contribute figures,
>> that would be useful.
>>
>> A very, very small percentage of accesses to BMJ's free
>> research articles are from patients and the general public;
>> see
>> http://miranda.ingentaconnect.com/vl=6377737/cl=15/tt=885/ini=alpsp/nw=1/fm=
>> docpdf/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v16n3/s1/p163.
>>
>> In OUP's recent study of NAR
>> (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/oa_report.pdf) only eight
>> to twelve percent of increased access was attributable to its
>> going OA;  far, far more was due to opening up to search engine
>> crawlers.
>>
>> Sally Morris, Chief Executive
>> Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
>> Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org