[GOAL] Re: Agreement on Green OA not needed from publishers but from institutions and funders

[Stevan Harnad]

On 2012-06-20, at 9:19 AM, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>  Stevan Harnad writes
> 
>> Some humble advice for institutions and libraries:
>> Negotiate with publishers about subscription price.
> 
>  Some not so humble advice: cut subscriptions.
>  Spen[d] a part of the savings building the institutional
>  repository. 

And if the institution's users need access to a journal article
from another institution, today, they should eat cake?

Or look for it, today, in their own institutional repository?

And maybe instead of spending money "building" the
institutional repository, institutions should mandate
filling it? The only cost of that is a few extra author 
keystrokes.

Perhaps the subscription cancelling can be saved
for when 100% of all institutions' articles have been 
deposited and are accessible to all users as Green OA? 

Maybe humble advice is more helpful than humbug advice? ;>)

Stevan