Re: JSTOR Announces Free Early Journal Content

[Laval Hunsucker <amoinsde@yahoo.com>]

Jean-Claude Guedon wrote earlier today:

> Nonetheless, Persee deserves all the support of the
> International community. There should be a European Persee.

Indeed; and that would be very nice, for everybody (and not
least, I'd surmise, for those who are now enthusiastic users of
JStor).

In my previous response, I, incidentally, considered mentioning
also the system called "DigiZeitschriften", but didn't because
its open-access component is much more modest than that of Persee
(but still also comparable to what JStor has now decided to do).
For anyone interested in looking further into the matter, I might
refer here to a couple of interesting and quite useful postings
that appeared during the last few days on the German library
discussion list InetBib: by Bernd-Christoph Kaemper at

http://www.ub.uni-dortmund.de/listen/inetbib/msg45874.html

and by Klaus Graf at:

http://www.ub.uni-dortmund.de/listen/inetbib/msg45888.html

The DigiZeitschriften site, by the way, is at:

http://www.digizeitschriften.de/

and its OA section at:
http://www.digizeitschriften.de/openaccess/

-Laval Hunsucker
Breukelen (Nederland)
13 sept. 2011


----- Original Message -----
> From: "jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca"
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 1:27 AM
> Subject: Re: JSTOR Announces Free Early Journal Content
>
> Persee was actually conceived as a response to JSTOR when some
> French journals began considering joining with JSTOR. Some of
> us met with Jean-Noel Tronc, then adviser to Lionel Jospin, the
> Prime Minister in those years, and we defended the idea that if
> indeed the objective was to project French scholarship urbi et
> orbi, then Open Access was the way to go.
>
> Recently, local political turmoils in Lyon threatened the
> Persee project, but it appears that these fdangers are now
> past. Nonetheless, Persee deserves all the support of the
> International community. There should be a European Persee.
>
> Jean-Claude Guedon
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