RE: From Inside Higher Ed

["MEDDINGS, Colin" <colin.meddings@oxfordjournals.org>]

Further to the below - these figures relate to the optional 
author pays open access initiative, Oxford Open. You can find the 
news item on our website at:

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/2010/06/10/open_access.html

These figures do not relate to any other form of access, such as 
via repositories. We have amended the text on our website 
slightly to clarify this, as there seems to have been some 
confusion in the reporting of this news.

Best wishes,

Colin Meddings
Senior Library Marketing Manager
Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Esposito
Sent: 12 June 2010 00:10
To: Liblicense-L@Lists. Yale. Edu
Subject: From Inside Higher Ed

A squib from "Inside Higher Ed""  "Academics remain reluctant to 
allow their journal articles to be deposited in open-access 
repositories, according to the Oxford University Press. The press 
announced Thursday that the percentage of Oxford Press articles 
authorized for re-publication in its open-access repository 
decreased overall from 6.7 to 5.9 percent between 2008 and 2009. 
Officials attributed the decrease to a relatively low rate of 
opt-ins from 11 new journals to which the option was extended in 
2009; putting those new titles aside, the proportion of authors 
allowing their work to be made freely available stayed roughly 
the same. Still, the stagnation of that rate indicates that 
researchers are still wary of endorsing an open-access model, 
Oxford officials said in a release. Humanities scholars were the 
least willing to participate in Oxford Open, the press's 
open-access initiative, opting in at a rate of 2.5 percent. Life 
sciences scholars were the most generous with their work, with 
11.4 percent allowing their papers to be freely accessible."

-- Joe Esposito