Re: Year-End Investments Towards Open Access

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

As one trained in philosophy who acquires books in the field, I 
heartily endorse this suggestion by Heather Morrison. Unlike 
Wikipedia, this encyclopedia reflects the combined efforts of a 
wide range of real experts in the field, and it is a wonderful 
resource, very much worth supporting over the long term. It would 
be great if other fields followed philosophy's lead in producing 
an authoritative reference work like this.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press

> Invest in open access resources, such as the Stanford 
> Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  This is a particularly 
> interestingmodel for year-end funding; the idea is to build an 
> endowment fund for perpetual open access, with funding 
> commitments designedto be roughly equivalent to three years of 
> subscriptions to an encyclopedia of this nature.