Iain, You wrote this in THES:
> << Their [the Open Access publishers'] "business model" at present allows > them to claim "we waive the fee for authors who say they can't afford it" > when only 5 per cent of authors claim free publication: what happens when > it's 50 per cent? >> As a matter of interest, what would you say is the overall percentage of readers (or their libraries) that can't afford the fees to get access to all the scholarly literature they need? And what would the percentage be for readers/libraries in developing countries? And what do you estimate the proportion of articles from developing countries to be in the journals of, say, the largest 25 or 50 publishers? Thanks, Jan Velterop
