From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 22:59:17 +0000

What an interesting reaction . Assuming you don't get a campus wide
revolt at the library telling faculty, researchers and students that
the "free OA Green" is good enough ( a huge assumption) if enough
libraries follow Rick's lead and start cancelling titles that are
Green OA, what happens next? Does the journal go out of business
because its base of subscribers disappears? Likely scenario? Does the
publisher put the screws on Green OA? Another likely scenari?.
Libraries try to re-subscribe.

Does the journal still exist, and can you get the backfiles? hmm?

I wonder what Rick thinks the outcome of his scenario might be?
Chuck


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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