Comments on: Occupy Scholarly Communications

By: Micah Vandegrift

Micah Vandegrift — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:53:32 +0000

Here’s a question for you Andy (and readers), knowing that I am totally in support of OccupyScholComm – is this really going to be the responsibility of librarians, or is it the responsibility of scholars to realize the sea change and live into it?

The adaptations in scholarly communications, spurred by these outrageous costs, are creating complex issues, and us info pros need to do our part to make them clear and provide good accurate information, but ultimately it seems that scholars have to want the system to change which will ripple all the way through tenure and promotion boards, administrative offices (Provosts, Offices of Research and Faculties, etc) and that is too scary a task for most. At least that’s what I’m observing in my work, so far. Onward to fight the good fight.

By: Weekly Ed-Tech Roundup, from the Barricades | Hack Education

Weekly Ed-Tech Roundup, from the Barricades | Hack Education — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:02:56 +0000

[...] movement. A sampling of stories and sites from the past week: Occupy Education. Occupy College. Occupy Scholarly Communications. Occupy the Laboratory. Occupy Librarianship. “Generation Debt at the Barricades.” [...]

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:01:17 +0000

henare, in a word, no. Sometimes–as was apparently the case with SAGE–they say, “but we are giving you access to more journals,” those being ones the publisher has just started or ones they have recently bought through acquiring titles or other publishers. But it’s not like there’s a choice. They don’t say “you can keep your subscription the same, or you can add these five new publications for an extra 7% hike.”

By: LOST in Libraryland « bringyournoise

LOST in Libraryland « bringyournoise — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:17:58 +0000

[...] about public libraries only here because while academic libraries have their own issues (see this by Andy Woodworth about the rising cost of library journal subscriptions, among others), I’m [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:49:32 +0000

I haven’t a clue and I wish I knew!

By: henare

henare — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:18:50 +0000

Is there anything else that comes with these steep increases (like, say, daily massages at the reference desk)? are chemists suddenly becoming 20% more prolific?

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:17:34 +0000

Yeah, the price increase is pretty breathtaking. Unless there is some amazing compelling reason for the hikes, then it just seems a step below extortion.

By: naomi

naomi — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:36:44 +0000

I am so glad you are talking about this, the academic institution I work for just got the prices for the upcoming year, and we are stunned atright the priceacademic increases. Defiantly going to email this to my supervisor Monday morning.