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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
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