RE: Wiley-Blackwell 2009 Subscription and Licensing Options

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

Sally Morris wrote:

'The publisher, ALPSP, has made both articles open access because 
of their importance.'

It's interesting that we have had two practical examples in two 
days of publishers accepting that subscription-based models limit 
the readership of papers and that the solution to that problem is 
open access.  This is counter to the rhetoric that some have put 
forward that under the subscription model there is no real unmet 
demand for papers.

(The other example was the papers from this year's Physics 
Nobelists.)

Best wishes

David C Prosser
Director, SPARC Europe


-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris (Morris
Associates)
Sent: 08 October 2008 23:03
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Wiley-Blackwell 2009 Subscription and Licensing Options

Those who are interested in these issues of journal costs and
journal prices may find two recent articles in Learned Publishing
very illuminating (declaration of interest - I edit the
journal!).  The publisher, ALPSP, has made both articles open
access because of their importance.

Donald King, The cost of journal publishing:  a literature review
and commentary.  Learned Publishing 20(2): 85-106
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/174148507X183551)

Donald King and Frances Alvarado-Albertorio, Pricing and other
means of charging for scholarly journals: a literature review and
commentary. Learned Publishing 21(4): 248-72
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X356680)

Sally Morris
Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy)
Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk