Comments on: Cornell’s Open Access Author Fund http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/26/cornells-open-access-author-fund/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Self-Publishing and Scholarship Don’t Mix Well | Self-Publishing Review http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/26/cornells-open-access-author-fund/#comment-3534 Self-Publishing and Scholarship Don’t Mix Well | Self-Publishing Review Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:28:24 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4170#comment-3534 [...] academic institutions are creating pools of money to support author-pays publication. Yet, they aren’t monitoring how the money is being spent or revealing much information about how they’re using it, either. And therein lies the biggest [...] [...] academic institutions are creating pools of money to support author-pays publication. Yet, they aren’t monitoring how the money is being spent or revealing much information about how they’re using it, either. And therein lies the biggest [...]

]]> By: The Tip of an Iceberg? « The Scholarly Kitchen http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/26/cornells-open-access-author-fund/#comment-3454 The Tip of an Iceberg? « The Scholarly Kitchen Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:42:51 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4170#comment-3454 [...] other posts on this blog, there is a lack of transparency to how author funds are being spent and the oversight of these funds may not be adequate. In addition to pots of money coming from institutions, other pots of money have also opened up to [...] [...] other posts on this blog, there is a lack of transparency to how author funds are being spent and the oversight of these funds may not be adequate. In addition to pots of money coming from institutions, other pots of money have also opened up to [...]

]]> By: Stevan Harnad http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/26/cornells-open-access-author-fund/#comment-3280 Stevan Harnad Tue, 26 May 2009 14:37:22 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4170#comment-3280 AGAINST SQUANDERING SCARCE LIBRARY FUNDS ON PRE-EMPTIVE GOLD OA WITHOUT FIRST MANDATING GREEN OA It is beyond my powers of comprehension to fathom why Cornell University would want to throw $50K of scarce library funds at funding Gold OA publication (for at most 0.1% of Cornell's annual journal article output) without bothering to mandate Green OA for the remaining 99.9% of its annual article output). See: http://tinyurl.com/qw76fe AGAINST SQUANDERING SCARCE LIBRARY FUNDS ON PRE-EMPTIVE GOLD OA WITHOUT FIRST MANDATING GREEN OA

It is beyond my powers of comprehension to fathom why Cornell University would want to throw $50K of scarce library funds at funding Gold OA publication (for at most 0.1% of Cornell’s annual journal article output) without bothering to mandate Green OA for the remaining 99.9% of its annual article output).

See: http://tinyurl.com/qw76fe

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