RE: Scholarly Kitchen

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

The fund is 'small' because it's not intended to pay for all 
University of Calgary papers to be published in fee-charging open 
access journals.  These funds give researchers who do not 
otherwise have the resources the option to publish in 
fee-charging journals.  One of the objections made against OA 
journals that levy a publication charge is that unfunded authors 
are unable to pay - this goes towards solving the problem and is 
a sensible move by the University.

David Prosser

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph J. Esposito
Sent: 27 June 2008 02:38
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Scholarly Kitchen

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-au
thors-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