On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/3/8 Juergen Fenn <[email protected]>: >> >> >> Am 08.03.11 20:46, schrieb Samuel Klein: >>> Melissa -- absolutely! I don't know the real stats, but I think we >>> cite OA jornals far more than any others in Wikipedia for this reason. >> >> Which is certainly a rather bad idea because what always counts first >> must be the quality of content, not the license of a citation or whether >> its available on-line or printed only. >> > > Yes.. as well as there are areas of research for which there is no OER > journals at all. Anyway - I don't think if WMF could afford providing > access to scientific journals in aby scalable way. For example top > chemistry journals published by American Chemical Society can be > subscribed by institution - but in contract there is a limitation to a > selected range of IP numbers and maximum download per year. The cost > of intitutional subscription is around 2000 USD per journal.
Ha! I wish it were that cheap. Some journals only cost hundreds, some many thousands. Some (OA) are free to the reader. See: http://www.arl.org/sparc/pricing/ or, for a more entertaining website, see: http://engineering.library.cornell.edu/about/StickerShock2 We certainly have many individual contacts with the OA community, including Melissa Hagemann, who is on our advisory board :) This is also an area of professional work for me. What kinds of lobbying did you have in mind? -- Phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
