Re: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics,apology

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

David:

I am not offended.  I am exasperated.  There are SO MANY GOOD 
ARGUMENTS in favor of OA, but advocates of OA continue to put 
forth positions that are marginal (your example below), specious, 
or simply uninformed.  I have written at greater length on this 
topic, and for anyone who thinks it worth the trouble, that post 
can be found at the Publishing Frontier blog: 
http://pubfrontier.com. The post is entitled "Putting Science 
into Science Publishing."

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodman" <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics,apology

> I worded this poorly, and i apologize to Joe--reworded below.
>
> Certainly there are many other topics discussed by the academic 
> world that interest you, and where you certainly have the 
> background to read some of the articles?
>
> Even in the subscription model, when part of one's 
> institutional funding is used to buy subscriptions for an 
> institution, most of the journals purchased will not be read 
> personally by any one member of the group. Even in a public 
> library, where part of one's tax funds are used to buy library 
> materials, no one person will read everything purchased. This 
> is the basic principle by which public and institutional 
> libraries exist: people joining together to purchase 
> availability of material that they could not pay for 
> individually. It's just the same here.
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
> dgoodman@princeton.edu