Tom, I think we all should be grateful for your own understanding, and I most sincerely hope personally that you are right about your colleagues.
Dr. David Goodman Princeton University Library and Palmer School of Library & Information Science, Long Island University [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Cochrane <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 6:02 pm Subject: Re: The True Cost of the Essentials (Implementing Peer Review) > At 02:53 PM 22/07/2003 -0400, David Goodman wrote: > > > >The reason why librarians must be concerned about this, is the > >unfortunate > >probability that the money saved from library acquisitions will > not be > >used to finance the publication system, but for > >general university administration. This is not an improvement > >over the present, where a considerable part of the expense is > used for > >general administrative purposes by the publishers. > >This explains why many libraries are willing to pay subscriptions to > >alternative publishers: the basic rule of library budgeting is > that if > >you > >do not spend all the money, you will lose it forever. > > > I don't think you should underestimate the capacity of university > Presidents and senior administrators to understand this problem. > They would > be quite capable of understanding any argument about a redirection or > repurposing of some of it, especially if it is a widely developing > trend. > Equally, if the dollars in our library budget committed to the > give away > literature could be released for greater acquisition of the non > give away, > most would be very pleased at this redeployment. > > So would the publishers of the non give away material. > > So would authors who have dependence in some measure on royalty > income. > Tom > > > ************************************************************************ > > TOM COCHRANE > Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) > Queensland University of Technology > GPO Box 2434 > Brisbane Qld 4001 > Australia >
