The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.1055 Tuesday, 28 November 2006
From: Mike Jensen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 24 Nov 2006 16:37:10 -0800
Subject: Price of Academic Journals
Stanford University has held public discussions for the past couple of
years about the price of academic journals what Stanford faculty might
do about it. Since this may be of interest to a wider audience, I have
supplied a link below so that you may see what was discussed at the most
recent colloquium. It begins:
>>Although there was little clear consensus about strategy among
presenters, faculty and staff at a Nov. 6 colloquium on issues in
scholarly publishing, there were two points on which almost everyone
agreed: The high costs for journal subscriptions charged by commercial
publishers in recent years are unsustainable, and the ability to
distribute articles electronically has fundamentally changed academic
research and publishing.<<
If this is of interest, you may read the article here:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november15/journal-111506.html
All the best,
Mike Jensen
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