[GOAL] Journal cancellations are primarily about journal costs

[Heather Morrison]

Journal cancellations are primarily about journal costs, not whether the content is available for free.

In April of last year Harvard sent a memo to faculty informing them that they cannot continue to afford high priced journals and asking them to consider costs when deciding where to publish. The memo can be found here:
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448

This is not an open access issue, rather another issue that needs to be addressed, and the drive for OA policy should not impede progress on necessary market corrections.

May I suggest that research funding agencies should look carefully at the publishing record of academics (past, future plans, editing etc.), and look at high-priced choices the way funding agencies and committees in my area would look at grant submissions including first-class airfares at many times the cost of available economy airfares?

best,

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Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa

http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca<mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>

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