On 5 Jan 2016, at 08:13, Jan Velterop <velte...@gmail.com<mailto:velte...@gmail.com>> wrote:
This is most interesting, Arthur. Is this a unique case, as far as you know? Is there anything that makes this possible at the U of Tasmania but not elsewhere? You say that the economics stack up. Intuitively I feel that must be right. I also think pay-per-view as substitute for subscriptions is what many publishers fear most. Of course, if the idea of pay-per-view instead of subscriptions gains traction, you may see article viewing fees go up. Re PPV, here at Imperial we operate a British Library ILL (inter library loan) scheme, which about 3 years ago went fully electronic, resulting in one receiving by email about two days later a PDF of the requested article which was otherwise unavailable via subscription. The PDF came with an extraordinary set of rights management restrictions. As I recollect, 1. The PDF self expired after 30 days. This meant you could not place it into any kind of local personal digital library (Mendeley and the like) 2. You could print it only once as your permanent record 3. You could not then make further copies of your print, eg to pass on to students, colleagues etc, who would have to make their own ILL request (fee £8 I believe). 4. This would apply even if the original WAS open access (although why you would request such?) There may have been more (and things might have changed since then) but when I queried the restrictions with our head librarian, I was told it was imposed by the British library, who in turn were adhering to British copyright law imposed by the “British creative industries” lobbying of Government. I would love to hear from someone that this has now changed (I have not made such a request for about 14 months now. That request by the way was for Alan Turing’s “The chemical basis of morphogenesis” dating from ~1952 and for which I encountered the above).
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