From: "Pilch, Janice T" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 03:16:50 +0000

Why shame? Isn't it rational not to pay for something if you can get
it for free? Why have such persistent efforts been made to make
journals free if the goal is still to pay for them?

Janice Pilch
Copyright and Licensing Librarian
Rutgers University


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From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:36:23 +0200

The idea that SHERPA/Romeo, created as an index of publisher rights
policies on author OA self-archiving should be used by librarians as a
basis for journal cancellation is so absurd that it takes one's breath
away.

Shame on the (I hope very small) segment of the library community that
is thinking along these perverse lines -- though the fault is partly
with SHERPA/Romeo itself, for trying to be all things to all people,
instead of just providing authors with the essential information they
need, as originally intended: Does the journal endorse immediate Green
OA self-archiving or not? If not, how long an embargo does it request?

Stevan Harnad