Re: Harper's OA & Copyright Presentation

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

I agree in principle with Georgia, but then, if this is so 
obvious, how come universities aren't taking any actions to make 
the products of their university presses available for free 
online but, instead, are still requiring them to recover 90% or 
more of the costs of producing them from sales in the commercial 
marketplace?

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press


>Listmembers may be interested in Georgia Harper's presentation on
>copyright and open access at ALA Midwinter last week: "OA, IRs
>and IP: Open Access, Digital Copyright and Marketplace
>Competition," paper at
>http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/images/5/5e/Harper_G_MW09handout.pdf
>and slides at
>http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/images/0/05/Thu_Harper_2.pdf .
>
>Here is the abstract:

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