Re: On Paid Gold OA, Central Repositories, and Re-Use Rights

2007-10-10 Thread Kiley ,Robert
On behalf of the Wellcome Trust - one of the funders behind the UKPMC Publishers Panel Statement of Principle - let me respond to this posting and state that we do not believe that the re-use statement is stating the obvious in terms of re-use. There are many publishers who currently offer a

Re: Gold Conversion: A Prisoners' Dilemma?

2007-10-10 Thread David Goodman
The fastest solution will be for a library to preferentially use its money to help pay author fees, leaving the few most used subscriptions and relying on resource sharing for the others. The membership pricing dilemma is solved by paying by the article, just as the subscription dilemma is.