From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 03:58:19 +0000 > Why ask the final two questions? Let me reiterate that publishing is > part of the research process, and the research process is very heavily > subsidized. And let me reiterate that saying “publishing is part of the research process” doesn’t magically make research funding cover the subsequent costs of publishing an account of the research. You can redirect research funding towards the costs of publication (and thus spend less on the former and more on the latter), but you can’t make one dollar underwrite both a dollar’s worth of research and a dollar’s worth of publishing. > So why not subsidize scientific publishing as well? What > is wrong with subsidies? No one said or suggested that there’s anything wrong with subsidies. My question was intended only to clarify what Toby meant when he said that OECD’s freemium model “generat(es) sufficient revenues to foot our bills, pay staff and fund investments.” > I also do not see commerce as the paradigmatic foundation of human > behaviour. Does anyone? --- Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication Marriott Library, University of Utah Desk: (801) 587-9989 Cell: (801) 721-1687 [log in to unmask]