On 2012-06-20, at 9:19 AM, Thomas Krichel wrote: > Stevan Harnad writes > >> Some humble advice for institutions and libraries: >> Negotiate with publishers about subscription price. > > Some not so humble advice: cut subscriptions. > Spen[d] a part of the savings building the institutional > repository.
And if the institution's users need access to a journal article from another institution, today, they should eat cake? Or look for it, today, in their own institutional repository? And maybe instead of spending money "building" the institutional repository, institutions should mandate filling it? The only cost of that is a few extra author keystrokes. Perhaps the subscription cancelling can be saved for when 100% of all institutions' articles have been deposited and are accessible to all users as Green OA? Maybe humble advice is more helpful than humbug advice? ;>) Stevan _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
