Lesley,
By just discussing this openly and saying we simply will not pay these
inflated prices we are making some sort of stand.
I think this discussion should be opened up to the whole lis-link
community as it isn't just about e-journals but about overpricing in
general.
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent at Canterbury.
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Lesley Crawshaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to those people who have already raised their heads above the
> parapet - I know it's hard - however it seems many of us are in the same
> position. We want Nature, but we feel that the pricing policy is not
> affordable by many of us and is a price that we cannot justify paying. As
> one might expect this issue is not confined to the UK. In fact there is a
> similar discussion going on on the following list:
>
> http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/
>
> For e.g. from that list I've taken the following "UCLA and the other 8
> campuses in the UC system have declined to purchase the electronic version
> of Nature and the Nature family of titles. Bev French, Acting Director of
> the California Digital Library (CDL) wrote a
> letter to Nature in November questioning their license and pricing
> practices. To date, Nature has not responded to this letter".
>
> Now we know we are not alone - the question now is if we feel strongly
> enough about the current institutional license pricing can we act in a more
> concerted manner so that the Nature Publishing Group has to take some notice
> of us?
>
> Lesley
>
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