[Dspace-general] Collections Budget

[Shawna Sadler]

Hi David,
Oh that is interesting!!! Collections paying for publishers to make an 
article Open Access... that's terrible.  I can't imagine the 
Collections' budget paying a publisher twice for a single article (once 
for the normal subscription and then an additional charge for Open Access).

We had a similar request, but thank goodness I have good relations with 
our Collections department and they sent this faculty member to me.  I 
wonder if publishers are encouraging this? Does anyone know?

Shawna

Shawna Sadler
Coordinator, Digital Initiatives
Libraries & Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
Phone: (403) 220-3739
Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:01:08 +0800
From: "David Palmer" <dtpalmer at hkucc.hku.hk>
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians
To: <dspace-general at mit.edu>
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We saw an interesting turn.  One of our faculties is now asking that the
budget funding the Library be used to pay for OA charges when their authors
publish in journals offering OA.  Though we have an insitutional repository
here, this faculty has shown no interest in it previously.  I have seen many
cases where the funding body of the research offers to pay these OA charges,
but never one in which the Library pays them.  Are we the first to be so
asked?

David Palmer
Systems Librarian
Technical Services Support Team Leader
The University of Hong Kong Libraries
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
tel. +852 2859 7004


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