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A book publisher's OA manifesto Polimetrica, a publisher of OA monographs, has released an Open Access Manifesto, March 12, 2007. Excerpt:
Comment. Kudos to Polimetrica and especially to Giovanni Sica, its CEO. There's enough evidence now that full-text OA stimulates a net increase in sales, at least for monographs (not necessarily for books of useful snippets like encyclopedias or cookbooks), that I expect to see more monograph publishers follow the lead of the National Academies Press and Polimetrica and commit themselves to OA. Publishers who don't believe that the economics will work for them should experiment --as the American Association of University Presses (AAUP) recommended just last month. |