[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Re: Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest FIRST Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

2013-11-21 Thread Bjoern Brembs
On Monday, November 18, 2013, 6:06:21 PM, you wrote: But as for librarians getting out of the business of subscribing to journals -- that's just ideology (and completely unrealistic) as long as authors don't into the business of self-archiving their published articles in their institutional

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Re: Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest FIRST Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

2013-11-21 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Bjoern Brembs b.bre...@gmail.com wrote: I find subscriptions too expensive compared to other solutions Institutional users need access to subscription journals today. Whatever the solution, if the content is not OA, it means paying tolls. The toll budget for

[GOAL] Re: [Open-access] Re: Re: Fight Publishing Lobby's Latest FIRST Act to Delay OA - Nth Successor to PRISM, RWA etc.

2013-11-21 Thread Arthur Sale
Stevan There is no need to wait and indeed we are not. The scholarly community is completely capable of acting on both text and data at the same time, and indeed has been for at least five years. This is to be praised not denigrated. Open access data is within our easy reach, because