Re: MCA suscription prizes

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2005 - 10:14:12 PST


Sounds like a great project for MCA fans to organize, Lara. The same
is true in other
disciplines as well. I simply don't know how its done, but fine with me.
mike

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:09:01 -0700, Lara Beaty <lbeaty@gc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> Just a note: In math (my husband is a mathematician), they have several
> entirely on-line journals that are peer reviewed but free and an
> archive that anyone can submit papers or books to. The publishers
> apparently gave some trouble about putting copy written texts there at
> first, but now it is not an issue.
>
> Lara Beaty
>
> On Friday, January 28, 2005, at 08:46 AM, Tony Whitson wrote:
>
> > I would add that not only do we write the text, do the reviewing, etc.
> > but also that to a considerable extent the time we spend
> > in doing this scholarship, as well as the data-generating research,
> > is paid for with public funds;
> > so the products of our labors could be regarded as public goods.
> >
> > I think the profession of University Librarians would be more than
> > eager to
> > help bring about a major change on this, but it needs to be an effort
> > by the
> > broad academic community.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David H Kirshner [mailto:dkirsh@lsu.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:10 AM
> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>
> > Subject: Re: MCA suscription prices
> >
> > On the editorial board of Journal for Research in Mathematics
> > Education,
> > which is published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics,
> > we
> > successfully lobbied the NCTM board to provide some free issues to
> > university libraries in developing countries. --I don't know if a
> > commercial publisher would agree to this sort of give-away. But the
> > larger
> > question is why do these commercial publishing houses still exist. We
> > write
> > the text, we provide the editors and reviewers, and in this
> > communications
> > technologies era we don't much need the publishing houses for
> > production or
> > distribution. It seems it's only the inertia of habit and tradition
> > that
> > maintain the status quo. That said, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
> > publisher
> > of MCA is one of the few that seems not to gouge its customers with
> > excessively high prices. Our library routinely pays thousands of
> > dollars
> > for a single annual subscription to some of the scientific publishers.
> > David
> >
>
>



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