Re: Wiley EAL license

[<bill@multi-science.co.uk>]

Good for you. The root cause of the crisis in scholarly 
communication is the absurdist price demands of big publishing. 
Open Access is an irrelevant sideshow, most of whose arguments 
were trashed over 30 years ago when they were first propounded, 
in the age of photocopiers. The answer is for libraries simply to 
say they won't pay, and if that means that for a year or so they 
have to do without so-called 'must have' content, so be it. 
Possibly the world will not end. Librarians need to realise that 
they are the guardians of scholarly communication and the long, 
the short, the only answer, is not to deal with crooks, however 
respectably robed they may be.

Bill Hughes
Multi-Science Publishing

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hulbert, Linda A." <LAHULBERT@stthomas.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:29 AM
Subject: Wiley EAL license


> Dear license gurus (please excuse the duplicate postings)
>
> Another company is looking at the Elsevier model and using it.
> Unfortunately, unlike Elsevier where a library might get more
> content than they could pay for and unlike Elsevier which does
> not require that a library participate, Wiley is requiring all
> multi-site libraries to have a no-cancellation, minimum life time
> spend.  Add insult to injury, we are not a multi-site library by
> any other vendor's definition!  But Wiley has designated us so.
> Without recourse.
>

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