A trio of excellent posts from T. Scott’s blog. Reinventing Scholarly Publishing, Talking With Elsevier and Talking With Publishers.
He was asked to come to a meeting and talk about his “vision of the library of the future.” The audience was 100 senior managers of Elsevier.
“When I talk to librarians about the society publishers, I point out that we share the same goals — to distribute the literature as widely as possible. The societies need to make money in order to do that. With the for-profit publishers the terms are flipped — they distribute the literature in order to make money. So our goals and theirs are necessarily in a different kind of tension. It doesn’t mean that we can’t find a way to be productive partners — but I think it will require a greater degree of willingness, on both sides, to listen and learn.”
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