Re: How to fund open access journals from available sources

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

Not even how much they cost (individually) but rather how many of them
(articles) there are, and thus how much they cost overall

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK

Phone:  +44 (0)1903 871686 Fax:  +44 (0)1903 871457
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org
ALPSP Website  http://www.alpsp.org

ALPSP Training Course: Introduction to Journals Finance - 05 May 2004 - see
http://www.alpsp.org/training/tIJF050504.htm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: RE: How to fund open access journals from available sources

> I think you and I are saying the same thing in two different ways,
> Sally.  It's how much they cost, not the subscription model itself, that
> is causing the crisis.
>
> ----
> Rick Anderson
> rickand@unr.edu
>
> > I disagree.  To my mind, the underlying problem is the
> > ever-growing gap between research funding (and thus
> > researchers/ research projects, and thus research papers) -
> > doubling over every 15-17 years or so - and library funding.
> > Even if journal prices and profits were as low as they could
> > be (without journals actually going out of business), this
> > gap would still continue to grow, though crisis point would
> > be postponed (as I suspect it already has been, to some
> > extent, by imaginative licensing models which give access to
> > more content for more people, and by moderation of many
> > publishers' annual price increases)
> >
> > Sally Morris, Chief Executive
> > E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org