From: "John P. Abbott" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:36:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Future of the subscription model > From: Sandy Thatcher Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:33:18 -0600 > As I've said before, universities have no one but themselves to blame > for letting STM journal publishing be captured by commercial > publishers. Universities had their own healthy and well-functioning > publishing infrastructure to use if they had so chosen, but for > whatever reason allowed STM publishing to migrate outside to the > commercial sector. I don't recall a time when most universities had university presses that were well-functioning and healthy. I think that is largely a often-repeated fiction. Very few U.P.'s ever had the scalable infrastructure to go to academic societies and say, "Outsource your journal operations to us, you get rid of that difficult overhead, and we'll send you a check every year." John John P. Abbott, MS MSLS Associate Professor& Coordinator, Collection Management University Library Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 [log in to unmask]