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Re: Who gets hurt by Open Access?

Once upon the time

horse and carriage was the main means of transport then came the
automobile. A whole industry unfortunately disappeared and unfortunately a
new one emerged. The same thing happended with the oil-lamp industry.
Large or small didn't matter they all disappeared.

Jan Szczepanski
Frste bibliotekarie
Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek
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E-mail: Jan.Szczepanski@ub.gu.se


At 00:32 2005-07-18, you wrote:


>From David Prosser's post:

>"It is in no traditional publisher's interest for OA to move forward."

DP:  Now, of course, this may or may not be true for the large publishers
who are nursing large profit margins, but let's remember that probably
half of all journals are published by small (often society) publishers who
only publish one or two title each.

JE:  It is precisely the smaller publishers who have the most to lose with
OA.  Elsevier and Wiley have the resources to work with this, but pity the
poor publisher who listens to SPARC on this matter.

Joe Esposito