Has anyone seen an access statement like this before?
Open-ish access … but wait! Not if you’re at a university. How is this a good idea? Are the articles in Sociological Research so very very important that one could not possibly achieve academic success without access to them, making academic audiences willing to jump through any hoop to do so?
I suspect not.
Anyway, I not only think that it is not the best idea to alienate your most likely audience out of the gate, but I also don’t really see how this will work. I get that if your library already has access to this journal, you won’t care if you are going through that paid subscription or getting the free thing you can get at home (if you fill out a form with info about your ISP, which I think might be too much of a hoop in and of itself for a not very motivated researcher).
But are they thinking that if the library doesn’t have access the person will be more likely to go harass their library to subscribe than they will be to go home and get it there? I think I must be missing something about this.
I’m trying to read it more as “here are the MP3s, if you like them please buy them on iTUnes”, except, I think you are probably more right, or it is just a Euro thing?
The journal FAQ helps eliminate the need for library proxy servers, so that’s good?