From: Bill Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:59:35 -0400

Sem reminds us aptly that the concept of the "core journal" still exists.

And not because of institutional inertia, but the straight-forward,
top priority needs of the faculty and students.

Bill Cohen


On 6/7/12 8:47 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> 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.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Sem C. Sutter
> Head of Collection Development
>  and Interim Associate University Librarian
>   for Scholarly Resources & Services
> Georgetown University Library
> Washington DC 20057-1174
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> ---- 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