I think that you should contact Michael Jensen at the National Academies
Press who has some experience on these matters. I think that you can
download most of their books a few pages at a time and that nevertheless
this does not inhibit sales. Best wishes. Gene Garfield
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From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
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Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:44 PM
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Subject: Re: European Research Council Mandate Green OA Self-Archiving
2008/1/19, Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> (9) Some have suggested that making a book OA online will not hurt but
> help the sales of the print edition, but this is far from empirically
> established as the general rule (although it has happened in a few
cases).
Looking at the evidence at
http://del.icio.us/Klausgraf/monograph_open_access
it is far from empirically established as the general rule that a book
OA online will hurt the sales. Please quote any valid articles or
research confirming your prejudice. If you are stating a general rule
you have to proof it.
Klaus Graf
Received on Sun Jan 20 2008 - 01:07:04 GMT