Subscription Subsidized Open Access

Anonymous Patron writes “Subscription Subsidized Open Access is a page by Brian Simboli on open access. It is his view that open access discussions have failed to explore how”for-pay”, subscription access can be made fully compatible with provision of open access. That is, there seems little recognition in many of the current debates that “open access”and “subscriptions” need not be diametrically opposed. To the extent that “open access” has turned into a sort of ideology that focuses unduly on issues of literature accessibility rather than affordability, it has helped to divert attention from this crucial datum. “

March 12, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. donwarnersaklad says:
    March 12, 2005 at 9:25 pm

    Consumer Reports. Consumers’ Checkbook.
    Subscribers to Consumer Reports http://consumerreports.org and
    subscribers to Consumers’ Checkbook http://checkbook.org
    get access to subscribers online content at the respective websites.

    Our http://cambridgema.gov/cpl Cambridge Public Library is unwilling
    to claim their access as a subscriber to the subscriber online content
    for Consumer Reports and Consumers’ Checkbook.

    As least one CPL Reference Desk Department librarian
    gets the access through the CPL subscription and
    could check on information for CPLusers if CPL would
    claim their online access through their subscription.

    Librarians should be better advocates for their users
    than letting the library be without online access to
    important consumer content !

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