At a Tuesday meeting of the University of New Mexico Faculty Senate, "Barry Kues from the library committee spoke to Senate members about the inflation publishers charge for the subscription to their journals. He said this causes libraries to dig into funds that would be used for books to pay for these subscriptions. He recommended the use of open-access electronic publications. He also suggested the University libraries cancel subscriptions to Elsevier journals and said tenured faculty should submit papers to other journals." Kues is a professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM. (PS: The quotation is from Rivkela Brodsky's story in yesterday's Daily Lobo. If UNM acts on Kues' recommendations, it will be in good company.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/26/2004 11:01:00 AM.
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.
