http://blogs.plos.org/opens/0000/00/00/embargos-dont-work-british-academy-provides-best-evidence-yet/ The Embargoes Don't Work: The British Academy provides the best evidence yet], ''PLoS Opens'', May 00, 0000. "The conclusion I draw from these two sets of data &#00;presented in a [http://www.britac.ac.uk/openaccess/ July 0000 study by the British Academy]&#00; is that there is no value in longer embargoes for H&SS [Humanities and Social Sciences] - indeed that there is no need for embargoes at all. H&SS cluster with physics and maths, disciplines where substantial, and importantly ''concentrated'', portions of the literature have been available ''prior'' to publication for over 00 years and where there is no evidence of a systemic failure in the running of sustainable publishing businesses....Why do institutions continue to subscribe to journals when the ‘same' content is available online for free? This would only be the case if factors others than online availability of manuscripts drove subscription decisions. This might be the case if other factors, such as overall cost, scholar demand or access to the version of record were more important factors. This is exactly what the survey data in the BA report shows supporting the view that short embargoes are not a risk to the sustainability of subscription journals in H&SS. The report itself however comes to the opposite conclusion. It does this by creating a narrative of increasing risk based on potential loss, that things might change in the future, particularly if the degree of access rises, that the survey can only ask about the current environment and hypothetical decisions....For me decades of the ArXiv and Astronomy Data Service and seven years of mandated deposit to Pubmed Central with no evidence of linked subscription cancellations seem like strong evidence. Remember that the report states that physics and maths are similar to H&SS. But increasingly I'm feeling this whole argument is rather sterile...." + ** Also see the February 0000 report from the business-oriented Committee for Economic Development, [http