Re: Authors rights: Going too far

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

How about the point of view of an author?  I would be livid if my 
librarian told me that my favorite journal were to be canceled 
because she thought the publisher was treating me unfairly.  My 
mother may have told me to eat my greens when I was a child; 
having my librarian tell me what is (and what isn't) good for me 
as an author seems both arrogant and ridiculous.

--Phil Davis

Joseph J. Esposito wrote:
> Heather Morrison wrote:
>
> "Perhaps it is timely for collections librarians to add Author's
> Rights as a key criterion, when evaluating journal subscriptions
> to add, or to cancel?"
>
> JE:  Perhaps some lawyers on this list would like to offer a
> point of view, but this suggestion seems to me to go too far.
> It is disconcerting to suggest that librarians insinuate
> themselves in the contracts between authors and publishers, whose
> dealings are a private matter.
>
> Joe Esposito