Re: Marketplace Story: Publicly funded research for a price

[Donald Taylor <dstaylor@sfu.ca>]

Actually, JAMA can be pricey as they have a sliding scale for 
subscriptions. Although we don't have a medical school, we pay 6 
times the institutional price of $590 USD listed below for an 
institutional site license.

Regards,

Donald Taylor
Head, Document Delivery Services
Simon Fraser University Library
e: dstaylor@sfu.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nawin Gupta" <nawin.gupta@comcast.net>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Sent: Friday, 1 May, 2009 15:28:19 GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: RE: Marketplace Story: Publicly funded research for a price

Furthermore, they have the facts wrong about cost of a JAMA 
subscription. It is still rather affordable for a weekly 
publication at $125 for online and $165 for print+online for a 
year, not "thousands of dollars." Even an institutional 
subscription for print+online is only $590.

Nawin Gupta

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Esposito
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:12 PM
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Subject: RE: Marketplace Story: Publicly funded research for a price

No one who listened to that story or reads the transcript will
ever again believe that NPR practices objective journalism.

There is an important factual error in that story. The NIH funds
research. It does not fund research publications. To confuse the
two is to mistake a picture of a dog with the warm animal that
licks your hand.

Joe Esposito

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah Tudesco
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:40 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Marketplace Story: Publicly funded research for a price

I heard a story about Open Access on NPR last night.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/

I thought it might be of interest to this group.

Sarah Tudesco
Collection Management Analyst and Reporting Librarian for HCL Widener
Library Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2855
studesco@fas.harvard.edu