From: "Sem C. Sutter" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:11:13 -0400

Things you might be missing:

--not every author will post her article somewhere readily findable,
or perhaps not at all

--articles in IRs or on personal websites will not be linked from the
standard online bibliographies with controlled vocabularies that
researchers use

--PMLA publishes one or more thematic issues per year and my readers
will not have access to that coherence if I force them to rely on
disambiguated access

--an enlightened society that grants its authors the right to repost
should not be high on my hitlist for cancellation.

We'll be keeping our MLA subscriptions.

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Sem C. Sutter
Head of Collection Development
 and Interim Associate University Librarian
  for Scholarly Resources & Services
Georgetown University Library
Washington DC 20057-1174
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---- Original message ----
>From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:36:10 -0700
>
>I just heard that the MLA journals are adopting an "author-friendly"
>open access policy.  The story is here:
>
>http://www.mla.org/news_from_mla/news_topic&topic=596
>
>If I were a librarian, I would now cancel the MLA journals and put the
>money toward toll-access publications or to some other use. My
>assumption is that a Google search would locate the OA versions,
>wherever they are located.  Is there a reason that a librarian would
>not cancel these subscriptions?  What am I missing?
>
>Joe Esposito