Are there no topics discussed by the academic world that
interest
you? Are there none whatsoever in which you have the
background
to read some of the articles?
Even in the subscription model, when part of one's
institutional
funding is used to buy subscriptions for an institution,
most of
the journals purchased will not be read personally by any
one
member of the group. Even in a public library, where part of
one's tax funds are used to buy library materials, no one
person
will read everything purchased. This is the basic principle
by
which public and institutional libraries exist: people
joining
together to purchase availability of material that they
could not
pay for individually. It's just the same here.
David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
dgoodman princeton.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositojgmail.com>
Date: Thursday, December 6, 2007 9:29 pm
Subject: SCOAP3 and High Energy Physics
To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
>>Of course SCOAP3 would also benefit non-contributing
>>institutions and the general public.
>
> As a member of the general public, I want to thank the
people
> and institutions behind SCOAP3 for working to make
research
> articles in high energy physics available to me. I
look
> forward to similar initiatives from the brain surgeons
and
> rocket scientists.
>
> Joe Esposito
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