From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:42:26 +0000
I hope that you are right Rick. And in the meantime I also hope that
any library contemplating future purchases from Edwin Mellen seriously
reconsider until this attack on the profession is dropped.
David
On 12 Feb 2013, at 19:30, LIBLICENSE wrote:
> From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:56:37 +0000
>
> For what it's worth, at the Scholarly Kitchen I've added my voice to the
> discussion of this story: http://bit.ly/WEwvDv
>
> This is not the first time that the Edwin Mellen Press has undertaken a
> ridiculous legal attack on one of its critics, but this time I suspect
> that the press will find it has bitten off more than it's prepared to chew.
>
> ---
> Rick Anderson
> Interim Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library
> University of Utah
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> On 2/11/13 12:24 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:59:31 +0000
>>
>> I had never heard of this press and am relieved to find that they are
>> not a member of the Association of American Publishers.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Blobaum, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:16:25 +0000
>>
>> I'm just waiting for the day I get sued for not recommending Google or
>> Wikipedia as a good source of information, or judging CINAHL to be an
>> authoritative index to the Nursing literature.
>>
>> Come to think of it, I am also waiting to be sued as Chair of the Tenure
>> Committee of the university for not recommending Tenure or promotion...
>>
>> Paul Blobaum, M.A., M.S.
>> Full Professor
>> College of Health and Human Services Librarian Liaison Governors State
>> University Library University Park, IL 60484 708-534 4139 pblobaum at
>> govst dot edu
>>
>> ________________________________________
>>
>> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:27:11 +0000
>>
>> http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2013/02/edwin-mellen-press-suing-a-li
>> br
>> arian/
>>
>> Everything old is new again.
>>
>> Chuck Hamaker
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