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26/09/2014

Reed Elsevier: Goodbye to Berlin – The Fading Threat of Open Access (Upgrade to Market-Perform) – Claudio Aspesi, Helen Luong (.pdf)

« … 11 years after the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, however, the rise of Open Access appears to inflict little or no damage on the leading subscription publishers

Subscription publishing appears in good health

With such dire predictions in mind, we expected Reed Elsevier to perform…

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17/07/2014

Degrees of Openness. Access Restrictions in Institutional Repositories – Hélène Prost – Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (CNRS), Joachim Schöpfel – Charles de Gaulle University Lille 3

« Abstract

Institutional repositories, green road and backbone of the open access movement, contain a growing number of items that are metadata without full text, metadata with full text only for authorized users, and items that are under embargo or that are restricted to on-campus access. This…

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24/06/2014

STM response to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) « Evaluating big deal journal bundles » (.pdf)

« A recent article in PNAS [consulter l’article LaLIST] suggests that commercial publishers deliver less value than not-for-profit publishers on the basis of a price-per-citation analysis. While price-per-citation is one metric from which value can be assessed, readers should be cautioned against drawing conclusions from this data. The primary…

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