RE: PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

Fytton, you may have misunderstood me, as I meant the suggestion to apply
to the costs of open access journals, where the library might pay for some
form of sponsorship.

For non-open-access journals, I agree that the author should not be asked
to pay for the cost of publication. Such journals may have been
unavoidable in the print world. Now we have the ability to reduce the
costs sufficiently that open access can be achieved--as open access
journals if affordable, as open-access repositories otherwise.

Dr. David Goodman
dgoodman@liu.edu

-----Original Message-----
Sent:	Fri 5/28/2004 3:04 PM
Subject:  Re: PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option

Isn't this suggestion the worst of all worlds?  This approach already
exists, among those journals that have had page charges for many years,
and it has a poor image. People feel that are being asked to pay twice =
for the same product.  And authors do not get the benefit of added =
visibility and impact that come from true open access.

Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:09 AM
Subject: RE: PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option

[snip]

The best resolution of the dispute about whether the cost of a journal
should be supported from the producer/author/sponsor side or the
library/consumer side, ought to be for them to share the cost.

[snip]