Re: practical solution

[David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>]

Dear mark,

There are always more left. There is always one of borderline 
relevance.

When advanageous, I was certainly prepared to make an argument 
that it was impossible, but I doubt even the dean believed it.

The benefit /cost ratio of any libraries' periodical list is a 
continuum. There is no sharp break between those to cancel and 
those to keep. One goes from the bottom, cancelling until the 
necessary money has been saved.  Yes, of those I cancelled when I 
was a selector maybe 1/2 would have been kept with abundant 
money, but I always had a list ready for next year.

There is **always** one still at the bottom.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
and formerly
Princeton University Library

dgoodman@liu.edu
dgoodman@princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Funk <mefunk@med.cornell.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 7:58 pm
Subject: Re: practical solution
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

> At 12:01 AM -0400 7/1/06, David Goodman wrote:
>
>>Rather, the reasonable suggestion is that money from the 
>>no-longer-necessary journal subscriptions be used to help pay 
>>for OA fees--but not directly by the library.
>
> <snip>
>
>>Librarians could right now cancel their most expensive (and not 
>>cost-effective) subscriptions for 2007, regardless of 
>>tradition; they could then inform the provost that they would 
>>like to apply about half this money to help faculty pay author 
>>fees, and would she please distribute the money. (explaining 
>>that the other half will be used for long-standing library 
>>needs that he's been asking her to fund for years, and will no 
>>longer have to ask.)
>
> Most libraries cancelled their "expensive and not 
> cost-effective" journals years ago. There are no more 
> "no-longer-necessary" journals left to cancel. Cancelling 
> titles nowadays means losing titles our users want and need. To 
> use this money to then pay for "Open Choice" publishing is like 
> robbing five or six Peters to pay one Paul.
>
> Mark Funk
> Head, Collection Development
> Weill Cornell Medical Library
> New York, NY 10021
> mefunk@med.cornell.edu