RE: Open Access pricing and the perceived ability of research

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Given the The Sonny Bono Mickey Mouse protection act perhaps the print of
the last 25 years won't be distintegrating when it enters the public
domain sometime in 2075-2100+, unlike the material published since 1926
which will be dust on the shelves before its in public domain. Where's an
orphan IP law when you need it! Chuck Hamaker

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Dresser [mailto:gdresser@allenpress.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:55 PM
To: David Goodman; liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Open Access pricing and the perceived ability of research 

It seems to me ironic that after librarians campaigned for years to get
printers to use acid-free paper, and for the paper mills to make it, now
that almost all of the mills making journal and book paper have converted
to the alkaline pulping process librarians are cancelling their print
subscriptions in favor of fragile electronic products. Not that I think
print has a long future, but I wonder if we were wasting our time fighting
that battle.

Guy Dresser