ALPSP library survey

["Mark Ware" <subs@markwareconsulting.com>]

**cross-posted**

Dear Librarian

ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 
www.alpsp.org) would like your kind assistance with a survey addressing 
the possible impact of pre-print archives on journals.

As you may be aware, some publishers are becoming concerned that if 
self-archiving of postprints, or even preprints, of journal articles 
becomes sufficiently widespread, this may lead to a decline in usage at 
journals' own websites, and that this in turn may lead to cancellations. 
In order to understand whether or not our fears are well-founded, we would 
like to understand more about the process by which you make the decision 
to cancel journals, what the crucial factors are, and how you would rank 
them in importance, both now and in the future.

We would be extremely grateful if you could spare a little time to 
complete this survey to help us reach a better understanding of the 
situation. We shall make the aggregated results of the survey publicly 
available as a contribution to this debate. (Individual responses will of 
course remain anonymous.) To complete the survey, please click on this 
link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=960811615855

Thank you in advance for your help with this.

Regards
  -Mark Ware (on behalf of ALPSP)
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