Re: The disappearing virtual library

Posted by Edward Angel on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-disappearing-virtual-library-tp7485007p7498185.html

One of the first casualties of the increasing cost of journals was books. When the prices of journals that faculty deemed absolutely necessary to have in the library went up, there was no money left to buy new books or other materials. 

Ed

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Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

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On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

Another input from Harvard:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/24/1816217/harvard-journals-too-expensive-switch-to-open-access

"Harvard recently sent a memo to faculty saying, 'We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive. This situation is exacerbated by efforts of certain publishers (called "providers") to acquire, bundle, and increase the pricing on journals.' The memo goes on to describe the situation in more detail and suggests options to faculty and students for the future that includessubmitting articles to open-access journals. If Harvard paves the way with this, how long until other academic bodies follow suit and cut off companies such as Elsevier?"

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