RE: Self-Archiving and Journal Subscriptions: Critique of PRC Study

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

> The money that is paid for subscriptions now is coming from the
> overhead that the universities are imposing on the research
> grants. The university takes, say, 40%, of which 1% goes to the
> library subscription budget.

I can't speak for others, but that's certainly not the case at my 
university.  Our materials budget is allocated to the library 
from state-appropriated funds based on a legislated formula; it 
does not come from grant overhead.

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickand@unr.edu