Summary paper from the Publishing Research Consortium

["Sally Morris" <info@publishingresearch.net>]

To help the scholarly community better understand and evaluate 
how open archiving might impact journal subscriptions, the 
Publishing Research Consortium has released the summary paper 
'Self-Archiving and Journal Subscriptions: Co-existence or 
Competition?'.

This paper is a condensed version of the earlier analysis 
released in November 2006.  It looks at librarian purchasing 
preferences, and concludes that mandating self-archiving within 
six months or less of publication will undermine the 
subscription-based peer review journal.  The summary paper, 
together with the original report, is freely available at 
http://www.publishingresearch.org.uk/.

Sally Morris
on behalf of the Publishing Research Consortium
Email:  info@publishingresearch.net
Website:  www.publishingresearch.org.uk