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RE: Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told
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- Subject: RE: Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told
- From: Jean-Claude Gu�don <jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:03:13 EST
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I very much agree with Sandy's message below, but it is tangential to our discussion. It is a helpful message, nonetheless, because it reminds us that many social and institutional have a sense of optimal behaviour that does not coincide with optimal economic behaviour. It is this tyranny of the economic paradigm that I find objectionable in the context of scholarly publishing. This does not mean not opaying attention to finances, but it means not being a hostage to various forms of economic modelling (that turn out not to be so good after all) and market fundamentalism. jcg Le lundi 01 mars 2010, Sandy Thatcher a ecrit : [Hide Quoted Text] > To be fair, there may be good reasons to employ grad students to > help publish journals, among them the experience that they get in > working in this environment that may help advance their own > careers later. This is also true for university presses that use > undergraduate student interns, as we do at Penn State; we > consider it part of our mission to provide such learning > experiences for students on our campus, and a number have gone on > to careers in publishing. The costs of training them are absorbed > by the Press, but they are real costs; our mission being not to > make a profit, however, but to serve scholarship and contribute > to education in other ways, we regard this as justifiable even > though not strictly the most efficient way to run a business. > > Sandy Thatcher
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