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Re: Maximising research access vs. minimizing copy-editing errors

Peter:

Have a look at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/aboutsite/quest2004/ (and the same questionnaire for previous years)

For 2 weeks, users accessing the free primary content have to register and provide some details about themselves. Year on year, the figure for 'patients' and 'general public' has been pretty consistent at around 2% and 4% respectively

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Banks" <pbanks@bankspub.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Maximising research access vs. minimizing copy-editing errors

Sally, I do not see anything in the usage report you cite that
shows " A very, very small percentage of accesses to BMJ's free
research articles are from patients and the general public."

It may be true, but it would be contrary to the experience of
some other publishers in medicine.

Peter Banks


On 7/28/06 7:54 PM, "Sally Morris (ALPSP)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>
wrote:


Apologies for copying the wrong link.  You will find the BMJ data
at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/aboutsite/visitorstats.shtml - look
at the 'Annual Online Questionnaire'

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org