Scholarly Kitchen

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

See Phil Davis's post at Scholarly Kitchen on the U. of Calgary's 
budget for author fees for OA services:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/06/26/u-calgary-library-offers-oa-authors-fund/

Davis has this right:  the money allotted is too small to make a 
difference.

One implication of the Calgary program is that the total cost of 
scholarly communications is rising, as the authors' fund comes on 
top of usual library subscriptions.  I simply don't see what the 
gain is here.

Joe Esposito