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Re: A Prophylactic Against the Edentation of the RCUK Policy Proposal



Stevan, I don't know what planet you live on (;-) but on Planet Earth the
problem librarians are trying to address - and the reason for any
enthusiasm for repositories or any other means of OA - is a shortage of
funds

Sally

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "Liblicense" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: A Prophylactic Against the Edentation of the RCUK Policy Proposal

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Sally Morris (ALPSP) wrote:

It beats me how people can argue on the one hand that
repositories are necessary to solve libraries' financial problems
If anyone is arguing for OA self-archiving in order to solve libraries'
financial problems, they are certainly barking up the wrong tree. As we
have argued over and over:
[SNIP]

Stevan Harnad