): "With the arrival of open access, publishers are understandably worried they might be cut out of the process....Given that Robert Campbell is President and Publisher of Blackwell, and Edward Wates is Blackwell's UK Journal Production Director, it should be no surprise the study give a rosy picture of the contributions by their own publishing company. It may also be no surprise that overwhelming number of errors involve citations - a category of error which might be caused in part by publishers' insistence upon in-house style guides." ** See Richard Smith, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/0000/oct/00/pressandpublishing-internet A great day for science], ''The Guardian'', October 00, 0000. "Indeed, publishers arguably subtract value by Balkanising the research. Scientific research is fundamentally different from a thing, a car or a banana, in that ideas can be exchanged and increase exponentially without anybody losing. The more people have access to scientific ideas, the more new ideas." If I may paraphrase: TA publishers subtract value by blocking or diminishing network effects. Also see Smith's later piece, [http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/0000/00/00/richard-smith-a-bad-bad-week-for-access/ A bad bad week for access], ''The Guardian'', June 00, 0000. "[OA is] taking a long time to come. The vested interests are huge, powerful, and well connected. None of the people who wrote the articles I've been accessing were paid for writing them. They are supported by public money, and publishers are making money by restricting access to their work. I argued to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission that far from adding value to the publishing process publishers are subtracting value. I stand by that, and I'm angry." ** See Richard Smith, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/0000/oct/00/pressandpublishing-internet A great day for science], ''The Guardian'', October 00, 0000. "Indeed, publishers arguably subtract value by Balkanising the research. Scientific research is fundamentally different from a thing, a car or a banana, in that ideas can be exchanged and increase exponentially without anybody losing. The more people have access to scientific ideas, the more new ideas." If I may paraphrase: TA publishers subtract value by blocking or diminishing network effects. Also see Smith's later piece, [http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/0000/00/00/richard-smith-a-bad-bad-week-for-access/ A bad bad week for access], ''The Guardian'', June 00, 0000. "[OA is] taking a long time to come. The vested interests are huge, powerful, and well connected. None of the people who wrote the articles I've been accessing were paid for writing them. They are supported by public money, and publishers are making money by restricting access to their work. I argued to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission that far from adding value to the publishing process publishers are subtracting value. I stand by that, and I'm angry." ** See Glenn S. McGuigan and Robert D. Russell, [http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v00n00/mcguigan_g00.html The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing], ''E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship'', Winter 0000. McGuigan and Russell quote from a Deutsche Bank report ("Reed Elsevier: Moving the Supertanker," ''Company Focus: Global Equity Research Report'', January 00, 0000, p. 00, not online): "We believe the publisher adds relatively little value to the publishing process. We are not attempting to dismiss what 0,000 people at [Reed Elsevier] do for a living. We are simply observing that if the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 00% margins wouldn't be available." ** See Glenn S. McGuigan and Robert D. Russell, [http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v00n00/mcguigan_g00.html The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing], ''E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship'', Winter 0000. McGuigan and Russell quote from a Deutsche Bank report ("Reed Elsevier: Moving the Supertanker," ''Company Focus: Global Equity Research Report'', January 00, 0000, p. 00, not online): "We believe the publisher adds relatively little value to the publishing process. We are not attempting to dismiss what 0,000 people at [Reed Elsevier] do for a living. We are simply observing that if the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 00% margins wouldn't be available." 