From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:17:56 -0500

Really? All the university presses in England count for nothing? What
an extraordinary claim!

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:04:01 -0700
>
> But David, Finch made it clear that Universities lack the means for
> distribution of its faculty's works.
>
> This is the vocation of publishers who reap the dividends.
>
> That's why the authors of the books receive only 10% of revenue - the
> rest goes to a publisher.
>
> Ari Belenkiy
> Richmond BC
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:04 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
>>  Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:58:54 +0100
>>
>>  Joe
>>
>>  Research university X already gives away its intellectual property and
>>  then spends much more than non-research universities in buying access
>>  to the intellectual property of other research universities.  Where's
>>  the strategic thinking there?
>>
>>  And of course, a lot of the research done isn't paid for by the
>>  universities themselves - it's paid for by research funders such as
>>  NIH in the US and the Research Councils in the UK.  For the NIH to
>>  ensure that NIH-funded researcher in University N has access to
>>  research outputs generated by NIH-funded researcher at University M
>>  looks to me the epitome of strategic thinking.
>
>  >
>  > David