Harvard Library pushes open access

Henry:

This looks like a bombshell announcement to me (I'm not aware of the internal politics behind the announcement, but I'm presuming that Robert Darnton's fingerprints are all over it). Discuss.

We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. ... The Faculty Advisory Council to the Library, representing university faculty in all schools and in consultation with the Harvard Library leadership, reached this conclusion: major periodical subscriptions, especially to electronic journals published by historically key providers, cannot be sustained: continuing these subscriptions on their current footing is financially untenable. ... It is untenable for contracts with at least two major providers to continue on the basis identical with past agreements. Costs are now prohibitive. ... since faculty and graduate students are chief users, please consider the following options open to faculty and students (F) and the Library (L), state other options you think viable, and communicate your views:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 26, 2012 1:26 AM
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