Re: Open Access: a role for the Aggregators

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

This is already happening.  I'm working with a client now on 
this, whom I introduced to DOAJ.  This client's aim has nothing 
to do with "the transition to open access," but is based on a 
sound commercial plan.  It doesn't matter if something is OA, 
subscription-based, or anything else when the economic model 
works.

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: Open Access: a role for the Aggregators

> Vendors of aggregated databases and similar services to 
> libraries have potentially very important roles to play in the 
> transition to open access.
>
> These roles range from increasing visibility of open access 
> journals through providing abstracting and indexing, to 
> supporting OA services such as the Directory of Open Access 
> Journals, to contributing to the economics of open access and 
> including the full text content of OA journals in the 
> aggregated databases.
>
> This could be a win-win-win situation.  OA journals benefit 
> from enhanced impact and support; vendors can provide expanded 
> services at little or no additional cost; and libraries can 
> enjoy more fulltext content in the well-developed searching 
> services we currently enjoy.
>
> By my calculations, libraries could fund an immense amount of 
> open access journals, at costs of an average of $1 - $10 per 
> title.
>
> For details, please see my blogpost, Open Access:  Roles for 
> the Aggregators: 
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/03/open-access-roles-for- 
> aggregators.html
>
> Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author 
> alone, and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC 
> Electronic Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.
>
> Heather Morrison, MLIS
> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com