Re: Suber's refutation of universities paying more for OA

[sally.morris@alpsp.org]

Interestingly, the National Health Service in England appears
  (http://dev.library.nhs.uk/nlhdocs/Guidance_note_1.doc -
see paragraph headed 'Journal Articles') to be suggesting that medical
staff can readily substitute reading and copying these and similar
journals in place of those for which they actually have to pay...

> The contents of many journals are now freely available on the Web.
> A list of over 300 freely available full text journals health journals
> is available from http://www.doaj.org/. In addition the NHS in England
> subscribes to around 1000 electronic versions of full text journals.
> These are available to anyone with an Athens password. NHS library staff
> can advise. A list of these journals is available from
> http://www.library.nhs.uk/
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Davis" <pmd8@cornell.edu>
> To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 10:41 PM
> Subject: Suber's refutation of universities paying more for OA
>
> Peter Suber's refutation of the three studies (Davis, Walters, 
> and Dominguez) in his last newsletter is based on the 
> Kaufman-Wills survey of the DOAJ journals, which show that the 
> majority of OA journals do not charge any author-side fees. 
> I'm particularly encouraged by these conclusions, since it 
> means that I can encourage our faculty to publish in cheaper 
> journals!
>
> Instead of the Journal of the American Chemical society, I can 
> tell our chemists to publish in Acta Chimica Slovenica. Instead 
> of Cell, I can tell our biochemists to send their manuscripts 
> to Acta biochimica polonica, and Instead of New England Journal 
> of Medicine, I can tell our medical researchers to publish in 
> Acta Medica Iranica.
>
> Unfortunately I can no longer recommend BioMed Central 
> journals. Since they raised the author processing fees in 2006, 
> their journals are now more expensive than our calculations for 
> subscription-based journals.  I also cannot comment on any of 
> Mr. Suber's calculations, since he didn't use any to be able to 
> come to his conclusions.
>
> --Phil Davis