Re: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics,apology

[David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>]

I worded this poorly, and i apologize to Joe--reworded below.

Certainly there are many other topics discussed by the academic 
world that interest you, and where you certainly have the 
background to read some of the articles?

Even in the subscription model, when part of one's institutional 
funding is used to buy subscriptions for an institution, most of 
the journals purchased will not be read personally by any one 
member of the group. Even in a public library, where part of 
one's tax funds are used to buy library materials, no one person 
will read everything purchased. This is the basic principle by 
which public and institutional libraries exist: people joining 
together to purchase availability of material that they could not 
pay for individually. It's just the same here.

David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
dgoodman@princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Monday, December 10, 2007 8:09 pm
Subject: Re: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

> Are there no topics discussed by the academic world that 
> interest you? Are there none whatsoever in which you have the 
> background to read some of the articles?
>
> Even in the subscription model, when part of one's 
> institutional funding is used to buy subscriptions for an 
> institution, most of the journals purchased will not be read 
> personally by any one member of the group. Even in a public 
> library, where part of one's tax funds are used to buy library 
> materials, no one person will read everything purchased. This 
> is the basic principle by which public and institutional 
> libraries exist: people joining together to purchase 
> availability of material that they could not pay for 
> individually. It's just the same here.
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
> dgoodman@princeton.edu
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007 9:29 pm
> Subject: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>
>>>Of course SCOAP3 would also benefit non-contributing 
>>>institutions and the general public.
>>
>> As a member of the general public, I want to thank the people 
>> and institutions behind SCOAP3 for working to make research 
>> articles in high energy physics available to me.  I look 
>> forward to similar initiatives from the brain surgeons and 
>> rocket scientists.
>>
>> Joe Esposito