[Eril-l] free to read?

[Melissa Belvadi]

Interestingly, the Project COUNTER TAG advisory group is having quite a discussion about this up-and-coming trend of offering "free but read-online-only" model, and what it means for the "Access type" metric in COUNTER data, as it's clearly not within the "OA Gold" definition.  So yes, expect to see more and more of it.
If you're interested in the COUNTER aspect, don't expect a formal resolution until COP 5.1 is made official, probably in early 2024.



Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island



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One of our library staff asked why we couldn’t download articles from this journal, like this one:



https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1751-7176.2012.00649.x



It looks to me like all articles prior to 2021 (when the journal became OA) are on this “free to read” model. I have not actually seen this before. Is this common? Does anyone know any more about this?



Thanks,

Amy



Amy Fry

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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