2012/4/24 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > Tangential, but highly relevant to the goal of free content: > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices > > "Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic > publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to > make their research freely available through open access journals and > to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls." > > > http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448 > > "The Library has never received anything close to full reimbursement > for these expenditures from overhead collected by the University on > grant and research funds. The Faculty Advisory Council to the Library, > representing university faculty in all schools and in consultation > with the Harvard Library leadership, reached this conclusion: major > periodical subscriptions, especially to electronic journals published > by historically key providers, cannot be sustained: continuing these > subscriptions on their current footing is financially untenable. Doing > so would seriously erode collection efforts in many other areas, > already compromised." > > Meanwhile in Wikipedia we accept these "gifts"[1] to put links to paywall content.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
