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<div>Good points, Heather. But surely free and open OA publications are about cost too (i.e., free of cost). While almost all subscription journal articles that can be freely posted do not cut into the subscription base, there must be some correlation between
the most expensive subscription journals and trepidation to allow OA access, especially non-embargoed. Has anyone done an analysis of the correlation of those two price structures?</div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> goal-bounces@eprints.org [goal-bounces@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison [Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 16, 2013 2:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Journal cancellations are primarily about journal costs<br>
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<div>Journal cancellations are primarily about journal costs, not whether the content is available for free. </div>
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<div>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:</div>
<div><a href="http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448" target="_blank">http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448</a></div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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? </div>
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<div>best,</div>
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<div>-- <br>
Dr. Heather Morrison<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies<br>
University of Ottawa<br>
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<a href="http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html" target="_blank">http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html</a><br>
<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a><br>
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ALA Accreditation site visit scheduled for 30 Sept-1 Oct 2013 /<br>
Visite du comité externe pour l'accréditation par l'ALA est prévu le 30<br>
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<a href="http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html" target="_blank">http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html</a><br>
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