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Re: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics,apology

David:

I am not offended. I am exasperated. There are SO MANY GOOD ARGUMENTS in favor of OA, but advocates of OA continue to put forth positions that are marginal (your example below), specious, or simply uninformed. I have written at greater length on this topic, and for anyone who thinks it worth the trouble, that post can be found at the Publishing Frontier blog: http://pubfrontier.com. The post is entitled "Putting Science into Science Publishing."

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodman" <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics,apology

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