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Re: PLoS pricing and the perceived ability of researchgrants to cover publication costs
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- Subject: Re: PLoS pricing and the perceived ability of researchgrants to cover publication costs
- From: "Gherman, Paul M" <paul.gherman@vanderbilt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:51:58 EDT
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O'Grady assumes wrongly that all the funding to support the PLoS model must come from government grants. Our libraries are currently spending billions to support the current post publication model, and those funds remain available to support the PLoS model. Already many libraries pay the publishing expenses of faculty who publish with an Open Access publisher. Available funding should not be a road block, and I am convinced this model will ultimately be successful, especially when the Open Assess model merges with the developing Institutional Repository movement that is gaining momentum in the library community. I can envision the day when articles are harvested from institutional repositories, vetted by scholarly communities, and published in virtual journals. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gherman, Paul M University Librarian Vanderbilt University 611 General Library Building 419 21 st. Ave South Nashville, TN 37215 615-322-7120 voice 615-343-8279 fax Email: paul.gherman@Vanderbilt.Edu
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