Re: Provosts' letter in support of FRPAA

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

Can someone explain the logic by which an "open letter" on Open 
Access is mounted in a hard-to-find manner on a Web site and then 
presented in a format that does not permit copying, pasting, and 
so forth?  What a frustration!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sandler" <sandler@umich.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: Provosts' letter in support of FRPAA

> Colleagues:
>
> This past Friday I submitted a post to this LIST calling attention to an
> open letter in support of FRPAA signed by 25 provosts.  The letter ran in
> Inside Higher Ed, ARL posted it to its site, and others have picked up
> long segments.  Nonetheless, the document URL I provided on Friday is
> apparently restricted to the lucky few readers affiliated with the CIC, so
> a better path to the letter is to go to the gateway page of the CIC site
> (http://www.cic.uiuc.edu) and then follow the news link (An Open
> Letter...) to the document.  It's worth a read, so I hope you find it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark Sandler, Director
> Center for Library Initiatives
> Committee on Institutional Cooperation
> Champaign, IL  61820