AAP and librarians article

[Debra Shapiro]

Umm, excuse me, at the risk of being redundant, since (see below) 
Tony Barry has already mentioned the Open Archives Initiative, no way 
Roy was talking about the NetLibrary e-book model as the way for 
libraries to steal publishers' business. (although of the companies 
offering e-books NetLibrary IS the only who has figured out that it 
is a way better idea for them to deal with thousands of libraries, 
who will pay them, than with millions of consumers, who will not...)

Roy is talking about ways for academic libraries and scholars to do 
an end run around publishers, doing their own publishing, like ARL's 
SPARC
http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/

Or the Open Archives Intiative,
http://www.openarchives.org/

which is really a metadata initiative at the moment but has the 
potential to eventually create something like a scholars' portal, 
access to scholarly research being done on university campuses, or 
other scholars' portal type initiatives, University of California has 
something called SCAN (I think)
Scholarship From California on the Net
http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/

We always were doing business with ourselves and paying a tax to publishers!

regards,
debra

On Wed, 7 Feb 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.

Leo Robert Klein <leo_klein at baruch.cuny.edu>
>This is what I'd hope but if you look at the hoopla, much of it inane,
>surrounding such entities as netLibrary whose title list consists primarily
>of college press, it really looks like we're doing business with ourselves
>and paying a tax to the publisher at the same time.  And sure, that's how
>things were done back in the old days but that it should continue now is an
>absolute shame.  The way things look, we may soon be unable to afford the
>products of our own institutions -- either that or we'll be unable to offer
>them to our patrons in meaningful ways.  O Brave New Digital World.
>
>LEO



>Tony Barry
>See the Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/
>
>If you are in a university lobby to get your university involved.
>
>Tony
>--
>phone  +61 2 6241 7659
>mailto:me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
>http://purl.oclc.org/NET/Tony.Barry
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