RE: How to fund open access journals from available sources

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

I think you and I are saying the same thing in two different ways,
Sally.  It's how much they cost, not the subscription model itself, that
is causing the crisis.

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickand@unr.edu  

> I disagree.  To my mind, the underlying problem is the 
> ever-growing gap between research funding (and thus 
> researchers/ research projects, and thus research papers) - 
> doubling over every 15-17 years or so - and library funding.  
> Even if journal prices and profits were as low as they could 
> be (without journals actually going out of business), this 
> gap would still continue to grow, though crisis point would 
> be postponed (as I suspect it already has been, to some 
> extent, by imaginative licensing models which give access to 
> more content for more people, and by moderation of many 
> publishers' annual price increases)
> 
> Sally Morris, Chief Executive
> E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org