<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I respectfully disagree with J Beall. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Libraries have always made decisions about purchases based on costs and other factors. Furthermore, they have the absolute right to (and probably should) make decisions that help to leverage change in the direction towards a more sustainable system. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On a related note, see the statement below in support of the Lingua Editors released yesterday by Association of Research Libraries,<a href="http://aascu.org/" target="_blank" class=""> American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)</a>, the <a href="http://www.acenet.edu/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" class="">American Council on Education (ACE)</a>, the <a href="http://www.carl-abrc.ca/en.html" target="_blank" class="">Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)</a>, the <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/" target="_blank" class="">Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</a>, <a href="http://www.educause.edu/about/mission-and-organization" target="_blank" class="">EDUCAUSE</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/" target="_blank" class="">Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kathleen</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class="">Kathleen Shearer</div><div class="">Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" class="">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a> - +1 514 992 9068</div><div class="">Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-----------</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Higher Education Groups Support Lingua Editors, Open Access</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Following in the </span><a href="http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">footsteps of other editors and authors</a><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal </span><em style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Lingua</em><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier’s practices. The </span><em style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Lingua</em><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">
editors argued that the journal’s price has steadily increased year
after year, far outpacing the cost of production. The editors also cited
Elsevier’s refusal to transition the journal to a “</span><a href="http://www.lingoa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/151012Linguists-to-publish-journal-articles-in-fair-open-access-def-1.pdf" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">fair open access</a><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">”
model that would charge low and transparent article processing fees for
authors, while allowing authors to retain copyright to their articles.</span></div><div class=""><div class="entry-content"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Despite the clear benefits for <em class="">Lingua</em> authors and the
broader community, Elsevier will not consider the adoption of a fair
open access model for this journal. Furthermore, the <em class="">Lingua</em>
journal imposes a 36-month embargo for article sharing via repositories
and other mechanisms, in contrast to US and other funders around the
world that, for the most part, <a href="http://roarmap.eprints.org/" target="_blank" class="">require articles to be made available within 12 months of publication</a>. As a result, the editors decided to leave <em class="">Lingua</em> and announced a plan to launch an open access journal, <em class="">Glossa</em>, to be published by the nonprofit Open Library of Humanities. According to <em class=""><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/11/editors-of-the-journal-lingua-protest-quit-in-battle-for-open-access/" target="_blank" class="">Wired</a></em>, <em class="">Glossa</em> will be able to support its journal for about $400 per article, while Elsevier charges <em class="">Lingua</em> authors about $1,800 for their articles to be freely available. By transitioning to a fair open access model, the <em class="">Lingua</em>
editors will establish a journal that diverts far fewer of researchers’
limited resources from conducting research. The actions of the <em class="">Lingua</em>
editors reflect the underlying values of scholarship that knowledge
should be shared as widely as possible for the benefit of research and
society.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Joining us in supporting the actions of the<em class=""> Lingua</em> editors and editorial board are: the<a href="http://aascu.org/" target="_blank" class=""> American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)</a>, the <a href="http://www.acenet.edu/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" class="">American Council on Education (ACE)</a>, the <a href="http://www.carl-abrc.ca/en.html" target="_blank" class="">Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)</a>, the <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/" target="_blank" class="">Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</a>, <a href="http://www.educause.edu/about/mission-and-organization" target="_blank" class="">EDUCAUSE</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/" target="_blank" class="">Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)</a>.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">As organizations committed to the principle that access to
information advances discovery, accelerates innovation, and improves
education, we share the significant concerns raised by the <em class="">Lingua</em>
editors and we support sustainable open access models. Furthermore,
research is becoming increasingly international and we must develop a
system that fosters global participation, regardless of geographical
location or size of institution. To that end, we strongly support the <em class="">Lingua</em>
editors’ decision to pursue an alternative solution, which will better
serve the needs and values of higher education and the public that
sustains it.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) noted in a <a href="http://www.aplu.org/news-and-media/News/aplu-statement-on-resignation-of-linguas-editors--editorial-board-members-in-protest-of-elseviers-pricing-policies" target="_blank" class="">statement on this issue</a>
last week that the current system of scholarly publishing is
“fundamentally broken.” This system, in which large international
publishers seek to generate huge profits by charging to access or
publish articles, many of which result from publicly funded research or
scholarship, is neither fair nor financially sustainable.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">We firmly believe that the higher education and research communities
need to collectively advance alternative models of scholarly publishing
that are fair, sustainable, and transparent.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">To promote wide-reaching and sustainable publication of research and
scholarship, our communities have already begun to mobilize efforts to
develop collaborative infrastructure and new financial models for
scholarly publishing. These efforts will ensure that the publications
produced retain and enhance rigor and quality, embed a culture of rights
sympathetic to the scholarly enterprise, and are economically
sustainable for the higher education and research communities and the
public that supports us. We invite and encourage others to work with us
in these efforts.</span></p></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 13, 2015, at 6:54 AM, Beall, Jeffrey <<a href="mailto:Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu" class="">Jeffrey.Beall@ucdenver.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I think that Guedon's advice to "Remove access to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Lingua</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>going forward" is the moral equivalent of a book banning.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">There's no moral difference between saying "Remove access to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Lingua</i>" and saying "Remove the book<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Heather Has Two Mommies</i>."<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I understand that all book banners (and journal banners) think they are doing the right thing and helping society.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I think it is shameful for anyone, especially a librarian, to call for the removal of content from a library.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Guedon is the modern-day equivalent of a book banner. He is pressuring libraries to ban serials, the same, morally, as banning books.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Jeffrey Beall<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">University of Colorado Denver<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a name="_MailEndCompose" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></a></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Richard Poynder<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:59 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Global Open Access List' <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">goal@eprints.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[GOAL] Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">I am posting this message on behalf of Jean-Claude Guédon:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">The article below (thanks to Colin Steele) is an example of a courageous move that must be supported by the libraries.<br class=""><br class="">With regard to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Lingua</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Glossa</i>) editorial board, libraries could, for example,<br class=""><br class="">1. Remove access to<i class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lingua</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>going forward (keep access to archive up to December 31st, 2015) if caught in a Big Deal; remove<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Lingua</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from subscriptions, starting in 2016, if not in a Big Deal<br class=""><br class="">2. Support<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Glossa</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(the new journal) financially,<br class=""><br class="">3. Promote<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Glossa</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>widely. ERIH is already classifying the new journal at the level of its current status by arguing that the quality of a journal is linked to the editors and editorial board, and not to the publisher.<br class=""><br class="">Researchers in linguistics, of course, should boycott Elsevier's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Lingua</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from now on.<br class=""><br class="">This event also demonstrates the importance for Learned and scientific societies not to sell the title of their journals to publishers. So long as we foolishly evaluate research according to the place where it is published (i.e. a journal title), publishers will hold a strong trump card.<br class=""><br class="">Finally, this event displays the incredible behaviour of the multinational, commercial, publishers with particular clarity. These are not the friends of the scientific communication system we need.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">>><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Extract from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Inside Higher Ed</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>article:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">“All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Lingua</i>, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier's policies on pricing and its refusal to convert the journal to an open-access publication that would be free online. As soon as January, when the departing editors' noncompete contracts expire, they plan to start a new open-access journal to be called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Glossa</i>.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">The article can be read in full here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">For a list of some of the other coverage of this issue see here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://kaivonfintel.org/2015/11/05/lingua-roundup/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://kaivonfintel.org/2015/11/05/lingua-roundup/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""> </span></div></div><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">GOAL mailing list</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>