A Letter from Sidney Verba (December 2003)

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-11-29

Summary:

"As of January 1, the University is eliminating a number of journals published by Elsevier. Some of these titles were duplicate print subscriptions. Other titles were shown to have been underused over time. Harvard libraries will fulfill requests for articles from these journals through interlibrary loan and third-party document delivery services.

The decision to eliminate these journals was the result of careful consideration over the last 15 months. It was driven not only by current financial realities, but also—and perhaps more importantly—by the need to reassert control over our collections and to encourage new models for research publication at Harvard...."

Link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040217152422/hul.harvard.edu/letter040101.html

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oa.cancellations oa.elsevier oa.libraries oa.budgets oa.big_deals oa.harvard.u hu.oa oa.prices

Date tagged:

11/29/2017, 16:03

Date published:

11/29/2017, 11:07