Re: OA strategies

[Bernd-Christoph Kaemper <bernd-christoph.kaemper@ub.uni-stuttgart.de>]

John,

the problem with "free backfiles" as on HighWire (and similar 
policies by other publishers) is that the publisher may 
reconsider and put the content back under toll access, as long as 
content is not declared Open Access and being harvested in 
parallel in e.g. PubMedCentral.

E.g., NPG did so with a full year of content when they took over 
publication of EMBO Reports from OUP and changed the backfile 
policy from "free after one year every January" to "free after 12 
months".

Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library

John Sack schrieb:

> Ann,
>
> I hope I've understood your question correctly about open 
> backfiles.
>
> There are 261 journals at HighWire where a recent or extended 
> backfile is available for free as I think you describe below. 
> For these journals, the current content would be 
> subscription-based, and the recent back content (e.g., a year 
> or more old) is open. (Other sites are completely open, and 
> others have free trial periods running.) (...)

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