RE: Scholarly Kitchen

[Andrew Waller <waller@ucalgary.ca>]

Hi.  Jumping in from the University of Calgary, I can say that 
David is correct.  We're still working out some of the details 
(for a number of reasons, we wanted to get the announcement out 
first) but we are only going to pay for accepted papers from U of 
C authors to be published in OA journals that charge submission 
fees.  In addition, we are likely only going to cover some of 
these charges e.g. for fully OA journals and for "hybrid" 
programs where there is a reduction in subscription fees or some 
similar benefit.

Andrew Waller
Serials Librarian
Collections Services
University of Calgary Library
waller@ucalgary.ca

> The fund is 'small' because it's not intended to pay for all 
> University of Calgary papers to be published in fee-charging 
> open access journals.  These funds give researchers who do not 
> otherwise have the resources the option to publish in 
> fee-charging journals.  One of the objections made against OA 
> journals that levy a publication charge is that unfunded 
> authors are unable to pay - this goes towards solving the 
> problem and is a sensible move by the University.
>
> David Prosser
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph J.
> Esposito
> Sent: 27 June 2008 02:38
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Scholarly Kitchen
>
> See Phil Davis's post at Scholarly Kitchen on the U. of 
> Calgary's budget for author fees for OA services:
>
> http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2008/06/26/u-calgary-library-offers-oa-au 
> thors-fund/
>
> Davis has this right:  the money allotted is too small to make 
> a difference.
>
> One implication of the Calgary program is that the total cost 
> of scholarly communications is rising, as the authors' fund 
> comes on top of usual library subscriptions.  I simply don't 
> see what the gain is here.
>
> Joe Esposito