Re: University of Maryland's Open Access Deliberations

["Ari Belenkiy" <belenka@mail.biu.ac.il>]

> 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.

Right, it is clear that OA is a problem with the latest research 
in Medicine and must be restricted to it.

Talking about necessity of OA in other fields is just nonsense.
Am I right?

Ari Belenkiy
Bar-Ilan University