Thank you Uncle Sam : today you seem to have enough money for
paying OA publications. We hope that you will be able to support also
in the future, the increase of price due to the impossibility of
other universities worldwide of paying Gold OA publications.
In Europe, the university of Amsterdam announced on the 25th May that
due to a precarious financial situation the UvA has decided that the
OA fund will not be extended after 2009. Please see Amsterdam closes
its OA journal fund
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/05/amsterdam-closes-its-oa-journal-f
und.html
It is probably time in Holland to chose the Green Road with the
Mandate, in order to acheive successfully their Green Road so well
opened some years ago .
Hélène Bosc
----- Original Message -----
From: Stevan Harnad
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:31 PM
Subject: Against Squandering Scarce Library Funds on
Pre-Emptive Gold OA Without First Mandating Green OA
It is beyond my powers of comprehension to fathom why Cornell
University would want to throw $50K of scarce library funds at
funding Gold OA publication (for at most 0.1% of Cornell's
annual journal article output) without first mandating Green
OA (for the remaining 99.9% of Cornell's annual journal article
output) at no cost at all.
(Yes, $50K is a pittance compared to $18M library budget, but
wasn't this supposed to be about providing OA to Cornell's
research output?)
Stevan Harnad
American Scientist Open Access Forum
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Without 8 Mar 2009
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Green OA is no threat to grants: Pre-emptive
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Affordability and... 5 Mar 2009
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conversion 23 Jun 2008
Harvard's Stuart Shieber on Open Access at CalTech
and Berkeley... 17 Apr 2009
Publisher anti-OA Lobby Triumphs in European
Commission... 13 Jul 2007
Physics World: The CERN Gold OA Initiative 8 Mar
2007
On "Open Access" Publishers Who Oppose Open Access
Self-Archiving 3 Mar 2007
Gold and Green Keynotes at IATUL 2007 11 Jun 2007
Cliff Lynch on Open Access 12 Jan 2007
Journal Affordability, Research Accessibility, and
Open Access 14 Jun 2008
Clarifying the Logic of Open Choice: I (of 2) 23
Mar 2007
OA Primer for the Perplexed: I 25 May 2008
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