RE: OA monographs

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

There are some people who might reasonably worry that putting 
books online will hurt their sales: if a book is not worthwhile, 
and reading a few pages is the most anyone will do, then those 
who have looked at it online will certainly not buy. If it were 
print only, they might, and then regret it. If an author writes a 
good book, encourage her to post it.

Just like with journals.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University

dgoodman@liu.edu
dgoodman@princeton.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of Sally Morris (ALPSP)
Sent: Mon 7/24/2006 6:27 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: OA monographs

I would have thought that author posting of a complete monograph 
was as competitive with the publisher's own version as a complete 
journal, rather than an individual article.  Of course, not all 
publishers yet publish monographs online, though a growing number 
do.  Some publishers have found that online publication boosts 
print sales, but others have found the opposite.

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "JOHANNES VELTEROP" <velteropvonleyden@btinternet.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: OA monographs

> Not a direct answer, but possibly some reasons why:
>
> Journal articles are in the main subject to 'publish or
> perish'. Monographs not. The ideal copyright line for a journal
> author is: "(c) Me. Please copy this article as often as
> possible and distribute it as widely as possible. Just make
> sure you acknowledge that it's mine."
>
> That makes open access superbly suitable for journal articles
> -- primary research articles. That should make such journal
> articles also quite naturally follow the model of advertising
> (despite the differences): originator-side payment.
>
> This *may* apply to monographs (there are monographs that are
> published with subsidies -- if the subsidy is sufficient, those
> could easily be published online with open access instead); it
> *does* apply to research journals.
>
> Another difference is that the decision to publish is the
> editors' for journal articles, but the publishers' for
> monographs, making a 'financial firewall' and therefore a
> 'vanity publishing barrier' rather more difficult.
>
> Jan Velterop
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Brian Simboli <brs4@lehigh.edu>
> To: SPARC-OAForum@arl.org; liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 July, 2006 11:11:24 PM
> Subject: OA monographs
>
> (cross-posted)
>
> A question that I posed to another listserv, but that might be
> germane to soaf and liblicense.
>
> Is there is an OA movement, akin to the "green rights movement"
> with respect to journals, to beseech publishers to allow
> authors to post a copy of their monographs on the web?  If not,
> why hasn't this been an emphasis?
>
> The difference here would be that green rights are rights to
> self-archive some version of already publisher-published
> ejournal articles, whereas this would be a case of authors
> gaining rights to publish electronically monographs that are
> sometimes available from the publisher only in paper and
> sometimes also electronically available.
>
> Brian Simboli
> Science Librarian
> Library & Technology Services
> E.W. Fairchild Martindale
> Lehigh University
> Bethlehem, PA 18015-3170
> E-mail: brs4@lehigh.edu