Re: Reed Elsevier CEO comments

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@worldnet.att.net>]

Note:  not *my* article.  Please don't shoot the messenger.

I don't believe there is any likelihood that Reed Elsevier will offer any
significant Open Access options (unless one has a fairly specialized
notion of OA).

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Feinman" <RFeinman@downstate.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Reed Elsevier CEO comments

> The Esposito article does not entirely mesh with comments I get from
> librarians about Elsevier practices.  But the problem is simple.
> Elsevier, and everybody else, can offer OA online and also a paid
> subscription.  If the paid subscription option is so useful it will
> survive.  For example, I have always had access to Nature and Science
> through our Institution but I still subscribe.  No doubt Elsevier has
> many journals like that.  If not, money is being wasted.
>
> Richard D. Feinman
> Alternate E-mail: rumford@onebox.com