RE: universities experiment with paying OA fees

[David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>]

One can also see this in almost any conventional medical journal. 
Read an article on neurology, for example, and you will be 
presented with advertisements for very high-cost drugs for 
neurological diseases. True, they will be separated by a few 
pages. Nonetheless, the cost of publication is paid for in 
considerable part by the advertisements.

Reputable journals have--or are supposed to have--procedures for 
avoiding contamination of the research by the advertisements.

If they can accomplish this independence, so can any newer 
system. If they cannot, why should we expect the new system to be 
less corrupt than the old?  But perhaps we can, according to the 
proposals of Varmus and many others: low cost publication via 
mechanisms like arXiv.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Bridges <kbridges@uvm.edu>
Date: Friday, June 6, 2008 7:19 pm
Subject: RE: universities experiment with paying OA fees
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu,

> what's more likely is some kind of targeted advertising support 
> ala Google.  You look up an article on pregnancy and you will 
> see ads for birth control medication.  The mind boggles.
>
> Quoting "Osterbur, David L." <David_Osterbur@hms.harvard.edu>:
>
>> 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-----
>> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] 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