Re: ACRL on OA--living in a glass house?

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

I note this in Peter Suber's April OA newsletter:

* College & Research Libraries (C&RL) began offering access to 
preprints from the journal web site, but only for members of the 
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). 
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/03/acrl-mixed-messages-on-preprint-access.html

And I join him in asking why, for an organization like ACRL that 
is a strong advocate of OA, does it follow a policy that 
restricts access to its own journal?  Its policy appears to be 
more limiting for the use of postprints, let alone preprints, 
than those of many of the commercial publishers ACRL has long 
condemned.  Is this a case of living in a glass house?

ACRL supports the use of Creative Commons licenses, but not 
apparently for its own journal. How does it feel about the use of 
the "author's addendum" by its own authors?

Sanford G. Thatcher
Director, Penn State Press
University Park, PA 16802-1003
http://www.psupress.org