Re: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics

[David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>]

Are there no topics discussed by the academic world that interest 
you? Are there none whatsoever in which you have the background 
to read some of the articles?

Even in the subscription model, when part of one's institutional 
funding is used to buy subscriptions for an institution, most of 
the journals purchased will not be read personally by any one 
member of the group. Even in a public library, where part of 
one's tax funds are used to buy library materials, no one person 
will read everything purchased. This is the basic principle by 
which public and institutional libraries exist: people joining 
together to purchase availability of material that they could not 
pay for individually. It's just the same here.

David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
dgoodman@princeton.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007 9:29 pm
Subject: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

>>Of course SCOAP3 would also benefit non-contributing 
>>institutions and the general public.
>
> As a member of the general public, I want to thank the people 
> and institutions behind SCOAP3 for working to make research 
> articles in high energy physics available to me.  I look 
> forward to similar initiatives from the brain surgeons and 
> rocket scientists.
>
> Joe Esposito