Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd)
Birgid Schlindwein (schlind@pollux.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:18:09 +0100
Message-Id: <9901290618.AA23614@pollux.weihenstephan.de> From: "Birgid Schlindwein" <schlind@pollux.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:18:09 +0100 Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd) In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9901281157.A15119-0100000@esi25.ESI.UMontreal.CA> References: <v02110114b2d5adf89e7a@[203.37.43.24]>
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Jean-Claude Guedon <guedon@ere.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> There I disagree with Tony, and I speak as a scholar, a professor, not
> a librarian (which I am not in anay case). Scholars are the librarians'
> master or, in any case, should not be. The publishers such as Elsevier,
> are certainly no tail in that kind of dog. If Elsevier is but a tail,
> it is a hell of a huge and prosperous one... :-) Kind of top heavy
> for the whole shebang if you ask me...
>
> At present, those who try and assign roles are publishers: just examine
> licence agreements... And scholars are reduced to being mere consumers
> in the strictest economic sense, tather than participating users.
No, they are NOT only innocent consumers!! Scholars are the ones that
feed these Moloch publishers by writing and reviewing for nothing (they
are paid by public money and public libraries buy those products for a
lot of money), but also insist on publishers/publishing role for their
scientific reputation.
Please, do not be proud of this part you play in the game!!
Dr. Birgid Schlindwein
Techische Universitaet Muenchen - Weihenstephan
Information Specialist in Plant Breeding and Genetics
85350 Freising, Germany
Phone: __49-8161-713426, Fax: __49-8161-714409
email: schlind@weihenstephan.de
URL: http://www.weihenstephan.de/~schlind/index.html
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