Re: universities experiment with paying OA fees

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

That is correct.  OA simply makes it more likely to happen.

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: Osterbur, David L.
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: universities experiment with paying OA fees

An article need not be OA for this to happen.  Read Overdo$ed 
America : the broken promise of American medicine by John 
Abramson, New York : HarperCollins, c2004.

   David L. Osterbur, Ph.D.
   Access and Public Services Librarian
   Countway Medical Library
   Harvard Medical School
   Boston, MA   02115
   E-Mail: david_osterbur@hms.harvard.edu

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Joseph J. Esposito
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:11 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: universities experiment with paying OA fees

Sandy,

In your list of possible sources for OA fees, you left out 
corporate sponsorship, as in "This article brought to you by the 
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company."  The trouble with free is that it 
potentially turns all communications into a third-party marketing 
mechanism.

Joe Esposito