Re: University of Marlyland's Open Access Deliberations

["\"FrederickFriend\"" <ucylfjf@ucl.ac.uk>]

More work needs to be done (and is being planned) on the costs 
and benefits for institutions of all sizes from the various 
scholarly publishing opportunities now available, but there is no 
indication from existing work that OA publishing will not prove 
to be good value. One important element in any such model is that 
the economic value of benefits is included, not only a simplistic 
comparison of existing library expenditure on journals with the 
cost of OA publication charges.

Fred Friend

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Davis" <pmd8@cornell.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: University of Marlyland's Open Access Deliberations

> Okerson, Ann wrote:
>
>> [MOD NOTE:  Surely one of the less compelling reasons for
>> having authors publish in OA journals is that academic
>> libraries, at least in the western world, would save money on
>> subscription prices?  Even if such a thing were known to be
>> true?  Is it time that we base our arguments on something other
>> than the dated rhetoric of the "journals pricing crisis?"]