Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

From: Tim Spalding <tim_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:40:04 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>  Universities spend millions on professors to do research and give it
>  away for free to toll-gating publishers. They spend millions on
>  buying access to research from the same publishers. They spend next
>  to nothing to make that expensively produced research freely
>  available to all.  This madness is not compatible with their own
>  incentives.

Exactly. Research shows that people site articles more often when
they're online. So, put your stuff online and your professors get
cited more.

Tim
Received on Wed Sep 23 2009 - 23:42:33 EDT