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P.S.: Wiley EAL License
P.S.: And, please, remind your faculty that many responsible
scientists care to put their work into open access repositories
(institutional repositories, arxiv etc.) so that access is
possible despite growing difficulties to sustain subscriptions at
many sites and despite the rigid and restrictive access policies
of *some* publishers for licensed material.
This can only work if faculty does the same for their own work
published in scholarly journals (the "green road" to OA, allowed
by a large proportion of publishers today) or if they publish in
the fast growing number of OA journals available (cf. the
Directory of OA journals). The importance of OA will be growing
in times of a global recession, cf. Peter Suber in his
predictions for 2009,
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-08.htm#predictions
Best regards,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library