2010/7/12 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <[email protected]>: > On Saturday 10 Jul 2010, Nagarjuna G wrote: >> May be it is already known to you, but I thought it is interesting >> protest, and we should ask our Indian scientists to do the same. > > I'd be happy to protest if the issue was making their content access > open vs. keeping it closed. If it's going to remain closed access > anyway then IMO it doesn't matter how much they charge for it. > > To make an analogy, it's like fighting for Windows to be open-sourced vs > appealing to MS to give special pricing for Windows to education and > research institutions. Is that really the battle we want to be engaged > in?
Actually the pricing ruins our already cash strapped research institutions. It is also necessary to have solid peer reviewed open access research e-journals of high quality. Springer, for example, permits open access provided the author pays for it. This is not particularly sane as all these prices are not within the range of most people involved. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
