[GOAL] Re: "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

Well, I think Thomas is right. As long libraries do not shift money from the subscription side to the Gold OA side, the transformation will be very very slow. Take the University of Zurich for example. I’ve just disclosed for the first time ever what they are paying for Elsevier, Springer and

[GOAL] Re: "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

I have advocated this for a while now (but am not aware of any university or library that's taken it up): Charge authors of your university who insist on publishing in a subscription journal either * a nominal amount that is based on an estimate of the average per-article revenue of

[GOAL] Re: "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

> On 31 Dec 2015, at 15:59, Thomas Krichel wrote: > > oh I know. It's because libraries are spending money on subscriptions. > And as long as they do, OA remains editable. With the talk of flipping journals, and where libraries should be allocating their funds, maybe

[GOAL] Re: "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

Stevan Harnad writes > 1. Actually, no one really knows why it is taking so long to reach the > optimal and inevitable outcome -- universal OA -- oh I know. It's because libraries are spending money on subscriptions. And as long as they do, OA remains evitable. -- Cheers, Thomas

[GOAL] Re: "Yawanna know wush wrong with this damn planet...?."

> On Dec 31, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Thomas Krichel wrote: > > Stevan Harnad writes > >> 1. Actually, no one really knows why it is taking so long to reach the >> optimal and inevitable outcome -- universal OA -- > > oh I know. It's because libraries are spending money on