RE: UC v. NPG

["Ken Masters" <kmasters@ithealthed.com>]

Hi All

At the end of the article there is the comment ""In many ways it 
doesn't matter where the work's published, because scientists 
will be able to find it," Mr. Yamamoto said."

Is this true, yet?  Personally, I want it it to be true, and 
believe (probably wishful thinking) that it's heading this way, 
but is it true now?

Regards

Ken

Dr. Ken Masters
Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
Medical Education Unit
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman
E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: UC v. NPG
> From: Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>
> Date: Thu, June 10, 2010 2:11 am
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>
> Is this the straw that will break the camel's back?
>
>>From today's Chronicle:
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
>
> The University of California system has said "enough" to the 
> Nature Publishing Group, one of the leading commercial 
> scientific publishers, over a big proposed jump in the cost of 
> the group's journals.
>
> On Tuesday, a letter went out to all of the university's 
> faculty members from the California Digital Library, which 
> negotiates the system's deals with publishers, and the 
> University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication. 
> The letter said that Nature proposed to raise the cost of 
> California's license for its journals by 400 percent next year. 
> If the publisher won't negotiate, the letter said, the system 
> may have to take "more drastic actions" with the help of the 
> faculty. Those actions could include suspending subscriptions 
> to all of the Nature Group journals the California system buys 
> access to-67 in all, including Nature....
>
> The story has an embedded link to the letter.
>
> Sandy Thatcher