Annex 1
STATEMENT FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF LEARNED
AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY PUBLISHERS (ALPSP), OCTOBER 2003
ALPSP is wholly in favour of maximizing access
to research literature; the various proposals for achieving this
(eg Open Access journals, institutional repositories, self-archiving),
however, raise complex economic, logistical and sociological questions
which differ from field to field as well as between different
sizes and types of publishers. Much more information needs to
be gathered through experimentation and analysis; ALPSP therefore
welcomes the establishment of journals with different economic
models for open access in order that the benefit to scholars and
the long-term stability and viability of these models can be assessed.
http://www.alpsp.org/news/openaccpositionstatementoct03.pdf
|
