With apologies for cross posting. I just realized I did not notify the open-access listservs of my latest blog post. I only posted it on my twitter feed.
Here it is: The Empire Strikes Back<http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-empire-strikes-back.html> <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4430152077491545869&postID=4774253132065441492&from=pencil> Publishers may soon compete with libraries. The business case for enticing users away from library-managed portals is simple, compelling, and growing. As funding agencies and universities enact Open Access (OA) mandates and publishers transition their journals from the site-license model to the Gold OA model, libraries will cease to be the spigots through which money streams from universities to publishers. In the Gold-OA world, the publishers' core business is developing relationships with scholars, not librarians. For publishers, it makes perfect sense to cater to scholars both as authors and readers. Continue at: http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-empire-strikes-back.html --Eric. http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com Twitter: @evdvelde Phone: (626) 376-5415 E-mail: [email protected]
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