SV: Revoked Open Access?

[<Lars.Bjornshauge@lub.lu.se>]

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ - www.doaj.org), currently
listing 3.600+ journals constantly monitors the listed journals for 
compliance with the criteria:

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=about#criteria

During the latest years the DOAJ-team have removed at least 30 
journals from the DOAJ because of changed publication model - 
that is from OA to non-OA. That could be because the publisher 
have imposed an embargo or switched to a traditional subscription 
model.

We hardly see legal problems in this, but one of the questions 
arising here is: what happens to the access to content which have 
been open accessible? We do not have resources to investigate 
that, but it could be of interest.

An interesting case though could be an OA-journal with 
publication charges (where a researcher and/or her grant have 
paid for OA) switches to a non-OA publishing model and the 
content paid by publication charges suddenly became non-OA - so 
far we are not aware of that this has happened.

Lars Bjornshauge Director of Libraries Lund University Sweden 
www.doaj.org
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