Re: What should journal publishers do about Katrina-affected areas?

["Scott B Wicks" <sbw2@cornell.edu>]

It is quite possible that faculty and students directly affected by
Katrina will be dispersed (physically or through virtual access means) to
academic institutions nation-wide while the clean-up efforts move forward
over the next several months.

One step publishers could take that would be helpful is to extend access
permission (over the short-term) from the license agreements currently
maintained by the host institutions to any of these scholars.

Thank you for asking.

--Scott Wicks


> The publishers Stanford's HighWire work with have asked whether there are
> any specific steps that libraries affected by Katrina would like them to
> take.  If there is anything the publishers can do, we'd like to hear from
> librarians.
>
> We have heard that no mail is being shipped to zip codes affected by
> Katrina, for example.  Would libraries want any added online access?
>
> I'll summarize what I hear from liblicense and report to HighWire's
> publishers.
>
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> John Sack, Director
>          HighWire Press, Stanford University
>          Phone: 650-723-0192; fax: 650-725-9335
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