Re: University of Maryland's Open Access Deliberations

[Klaus Graf <klausgraf@googlemail.com>]

There is enough evidence that OA increases sales:
http://delicious.com/Klausgraf/monograph_open_access

Klaus Graf

2009/5/1 Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>:

> How does one even begin to measure the "economic value" of OA
> for, say, a work of literary criticism or a monograph on Hume's
> philosophy? We scholarly publishers would dearly like to believe
> that spreading our specialized content freely worldwide would be
> a benefit to civilization, but this is an article of faith for
> us, not something we have any easy way of quantifying
> economically.