RE: Thoughts on the House of Commons report

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Interesting comments from all on this thread so far. I would like to
reiterate, as Stevan Harnad has, that Open Access through institutional
repositories does not mean the end of library subscriptions. Partial OA
within journals (author charges for specific articles) does not end the
need for subscriptions. Just because a society or association experiments
with OA in its various guises, whether that be free content to backfiles
or individual articles, for example, the "threat" to subscriptions isn't
the point, and may well be negligible.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825