Re: Against Squandering Scarce Library Funds on Pre-Emptive Gold OA Without First Mandating Green OA

2009-05-26 Thread H�l�ne . Bosc
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 A

Re: The Accelerating Worldwide Adoption Rate for Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates

2009-05-26 Thread Stevan Harnad
[ The following text is in the "WINDOWS-1252" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] On 26-May-09, at 5:35 AM, Richard Poynder wrote: Stevan?s comments raise more questions I think:   1. St

Against Squandering Scarce Library Funds on Pre-Emptive Gold OA Without First Mandating Green OA

2009-05-26 Thread Stevan Harnad
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 journa

Re: The Accelerating Worldwide Adoption Rate for Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandates

2009-05-26 Thread Richard Poynder
Stevan's comments raise more questions I think:   1. Stevan says, "Full compliance is of course 100% compliance, and the longer-standing mandates are climbing toward that".    On my blog Bill Hooker asks, "Where could I find data to show this?"(http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-access-