Salo | How to Scuttle a Scholarly Communication Initiative | Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-07-13

Summary:

Abstract:  Since Clifford Lynch’s infamous call to arms (2003), academic libraries have been wasting their time trying to change the scholarly communication system on the feeblest of rationalizations. Proper librarians know that the current system is obviously the most sustainable, since it’s lasted this long and provided so much benefit to libraries (Rogers, 2012a) and profit to organizations as diverse as Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, and the American Chemical Society, as well as their CEOs (Berrett, 2012). Moreover, faculty have proclaimed loudly and clearly that they believe libraries’ central role is to be the campus’s collective knowledge wallet (Schonfeld & Housewright, 2010; Lucky, 2012), so who are librarians to argue?

 

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https://iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/12693/

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07/13/2021, 11:31

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oa.scholcomm oa.objections oa.debates oa.libraries oa.economics_of oa.ir oa.funds oa.policies oa.etds oa.green oa.digitization oa.data oa.repositories

Date tagged:

07/13/2021, 15:31

Date published:

08/15/2013, 11:31