Re: selling e-articles

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

The solution is simple: the CCC has offered the Rightslink 
service for several years to accomplish just this purpose, with 
permission included, of course. Among academic journal publishers 
that have adopted it is the University of California Press.

http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=pu4-n

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press

>A colleague would like to hear of examples of publishers of 
>journals that have both print and electronic versions who have 
>successfully introduced online sale of individual articles 
>unbundled from the original volume or issue.  That is, for 
>readers who do not have a personal or institutional subscription 
>but want access to a small number of recent or older articles, 
>are there examples of being able to purchase those articles "by 
>the drink"?  Are there issues of permission from authors that 
>need to be navigated?  He has an idea that commercial publishers 
>have wrestled with this when e.g. the New York Times wants to 
>sell articles "by the drink" from its vast archive.  What have 
>journals done to make this possible for academic content?  It 
>seems self-evident that there would be a market for this part of 
>the "long tail" of academic publishing and the cost of offering 
>the service would be trivial for a publisher already delivering 
>online content.  Please comment to the list.
>
>Ann Okerson
>Moderator, Liblicense