[WEB4LIB] Re: AAP and librarians article

[Tony Barry]

At 7:46 AM -0800 7/2/2001, Roy Tennant wrote:
>What publishers *should* fear us for is stealing their business 
>right out from under them. In academe, we have the goods - the 
>faculty who write and publish. If we can get our act together and 
>start retaining this output in the university by publishing it 
>ourselves (online, for free), the commercial publisher has been cut 
>out of the equation. Is this happening? You bet it is. Will it grow 
>to the point of putting Elsevier out of business? Who knows. But if 
>I were them, *that's* what I would fear about libraries.

See the Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/

If you are in a university lobby to get your university involved.

Tony
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