RE: BNP Paribas: Open access triggers Elsevier stock warning

["T Scott Plutchak" <tscott@uab.edu>]

I am fascinated by the notion that BNP Paribas believes the "article-fee
based open access system" is already "more successful" than subscription
based access.  I wonder how they define and quantify "more successful"?

T. Scott Plutchak
Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
tscott@uab.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Okerson [mailto:ann.okerson@yale.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:26 AM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: BNP Paribas: Open access triggers Elsevier stock warning 

Of possible interest:  posted by Peter Suber, at:  
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Open access triggers Elsevier stock warning.  Financial analysts at BNP
Paribas <www.bnpparibas.com/en/home/default.asp> issued the following
report <http://www.newratings.com/new2/beta/article.asp?aid=341832> on
Reed Elsevier stock this afternoon: "BNP Paribas expresses its concern
regarding the company''s current subscription based access, as compared to
the newer and more successful article-fee based open access system."

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