From: Nikolai Mileck <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:02:17 +0200

Dear Joe,

Indeed, it would save money.

But fom the librarians point of view, we would leave the trail
offering our patrons a systematic linking to relevant resources. The
question is: How can we manage an effective linking to these articles
allocated all over the web - user-friendly and beyond Google? What
about the link resolvers and OPACs still used by libraries and there
patrons?
There's a difference between single OA-articles and OA-journals.

Nikolai Mileck

Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg (Germany)


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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