On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
> I wish I could share your optimism, Stevan, but we just published a book
> about Rutgers (by an English professor there) that shows that the Rutgers
> administration, pressured by the sports boosters on its board of trustees,
> are quite happy to spend
On 25-Sep-07, at 9:50 PM, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
> it is not a matter of whether the STM business could be run
> profitably with
> NIH-type restrictions in place, but instead the expectations the
> companies most invested in this business have about profit margins
> and their willingness to continu
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
> You make it all sound so simple, Stevan, but there is nothing simple about
> a
> transition from Green OA to Gold OA, including the redirection of savings
> from journal subscriptions to funding Gold OA journals, because as many
> wise
> people like Jim
You make it all sound so simple, Stevan, but there is nothing simple about a
transition from Green OA to Gold OA, including the redirection of savings
from journal subscriptions to funding Gold OA journals, because as many wise
people like Jim O'Donnell have pointed out on this list, universities d
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
> Ah, yes, and if you'll remember our prior discussion about open access,
> Stevan, I warned that just this "success" might be the "tipping point" to
> drive a host of commercial and society publishers out of the business of
> journal publishing. One "tip
** Cross-Posted **
Thomas, Chuck & McDonald, Robert H. (2007)
Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in Digital
Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1.
D-lib Magazine 13 (9/10)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.htm
** Cross-Posted **
Thomas, Chuck & McDonald, Robert H. (2007)
Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in Digital
Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1.
D-lib Magazine 13 (9/10)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.htm