Philip Aldrick, The Questor Column, Telegraph, February 18, 2005. Excerpt: 'For once, Reed Elsevier – the largest quoted media company in Europe – had nothing but good news to report at its full-year results yesterday. Sir Crispin Davis, chief executive, is more used to political bickering over "open access" scientific publishing, restructuring and problems in at least one of four markets. This time, he could afford a grin on the annual plod round Reed's worthy but unexciting legal, scientific, education and business divisions. "The outlook for all our markets is better," he said, as the company ramped up its dividend policy. The "open access" threat to the system of researchers subscribing to Reed's scientific journals also appeared to diminish. For the first time in seven years, the publishing method lost market share.'
(PS: What is Crispin Davis talking about? I haven't seen any report or any evidence to suggest that OA is losing market share. On the contrary, all the signs I've seen suggest growing acceptance, growing provision, and growing share. If there's more to Davis' claim than CEO-speak, then I'd like to know about it. Please post any contrary indications to SOAF or drop me a line.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/18/2005 07:40:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
