Re: Scholarly Kitchen

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

I would be most interested to learn how the fund is going to be 
disbursed. Is it being done on a first come first served basis or 
is there some committee or "office" charged with deciding who is 
worthy of this help. Calgary may well have decided how they are 
going to make these sort of decisions but it is not at all clear 
from the announcement. Is there anyone on this list who knows?

Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:12 PM
Subject: RE: Scholarly Kitchen

> 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