Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, June 15, 2010

A library story


just for SWMBO...

U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs

Because they have a captive audience, in my experience publishers have been gouging libraries and students for decades. Something really has to be done...



1 comment:

Kate said...

The Open Access movement is, mercifully gaining ground in both scholarly publishing and textbook production. Libraries have been coping with double digit inflation in US dollars (even for European titles sold to Canadian Universities) for decades. Bravo U of C