Claudia Plascencia, Academic journals to be sacrificed in library cuts, San Jose State University Spartan Daily, March 24, 2004. Excerpt: "With all of the financial uncertainty because of the state's budget crisis, departments on campus are having to deal with budget cuts, and the university library housed in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joint Library is no exception. The university library is expecting to cut about 18 percent of its total collections budget, and an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 of those cuts will be primarily to printed subscriptions such as the printed academic journals, said Jo Bell Whitlatch, associate dean of the San Jose State University library....Departments will have until May 7 to submit names of journal subscriptions they would like to be exempt from the cuts, Whitlatch said....'We are preserving electronic resources, because those are the most in demand by faculty and students and tend to be the most heavily-used,' Whitlatch said. (Thanks to Gary Price.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/24/2004 10:48:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
