Re: electronic journals CCC

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

The logic is very straightforward. It is to do with the cost of putting
journals online. It is not necessarily anything to do with shareholder
value because very much the same position is to taken by not-for-profit
publishers as by commercial publishers. Most charge extra and some do not.
As we know from the OhioLink statistics , the sort of deals they (and
other library consortia)  have with most of the larger publishers gives
them a significantly reduced cost per access compared with what used to be
the case. I also do not understand the comment about "pure" shareholder
value. You work in a capitalist society. You depend on investment getting
a return.

Anthony Watkinson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Karl-Josef Ziegler <kziegler@uni-koblenz.de>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: electronic journals CCC


> Dear Mr. Watkinson!
>
> But there's one significant difference: in the Tasini case the publishers
> don't want to pay additional fees to authors for 'electronic re-use' of
> their articles; but of course the same publishers want to get additional
> money from libraries for using this electronic content they don't had paid
> for. What's the logic behind this? Pure shareholder value?
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Karl-Josef Ziegler