From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:30:47 -0500

And the amount of academic publishing done by university presses is
dwarfed by that done by for-profit, private companies. Yes, knowledge
of history can be helpful . . . . :)

Sandy Thatcher


At 6:11 PM -0400 4/30/13, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> From: "Guédon Jean-Claude" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:03:17 -0400
>
> Public subsidies are already the case, to a greater or lesser extent,
> in many countries or groups of countries. For example: Canada, France,
> Italy, the countries of Latin America, Europe + South Africa
> supporting SciELO, etc...
>
> Perversely, these public subsidies sometimes go to supporting private
> companies (the French case is a very good example of this situation).
>
> The US will probably be the last country to adopt such a system, once
> Britain relents..., but the university presses of old used to be
> subsidized by public or non-profit universities. That was the idea
> behind the creation of Johns Hopkins University Press. Some knowledge
> of history can be helpful in this regard.
>
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
> Professeur titulaire
> Littérature comparée
> Université de Montréal
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:52:58 -0400
>
> I quote:
>
> "Support all scientific publishing by public subsidies"
>
> Good luck.
>
> Joe Esposito