Re: Seven ARL Libraries Face Major Planned or Potential Budget Cuts

[Mike Rossner <rossner@mail.rockefeller.edu>]

With regard to the library funding crisis, an editorial was 
published on Monday in the three journals of the Rockefeller 
University Press to inform research scientists about this major 
problem facing their libraries.  Although librarians have been 
aware of the problem for years, I think it is important for their 
constituents to be alerted.

Title: A challenge to Goliath

Abstract: Megapublishers obligate librarians to buy hundreds of 
journals they do not need in order to access the journals their 
constituents actually read. The time has come to challenge this 
business model, which is unsustainable for the libraries.

Full text:

http://jcb.rupress.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200904082v1
or
http://jem.rupress.org/cgi/content/full/jem.20090836
or
http://jgp.rupress.org/cgi/content/full/jgp.200910248v1


Mike Rossner
Rockefeller University Press


At 07:49 PM 4/29/2009, you wrote:
>Seven ARL libraries are facing major planned or potential budget
>cuts: Cornell University Library, Emory University Libraries, MIT
>Libraries, UCLA Libraries, University of Tennessee Libraries,
>University of Washington Libraries, and Yale University Library.
>These examples suggest that significant budget cuts may be
>widespread in ARL libraries.
>
>http://tinyurl.com/chgumq
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Charles W. Bailey, Jr.