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GOOD FAST CHEAP You can still have only two. Michelynn > > > "Freely available" is not the same thing as "free." > > > > I did not say that it was. > > I see. I assumed when you countered the horrendouus $3,000 price tag > with your previous offer "to make the chapters freely available on > E-LIS," that you were negating the need for cost recovery. So is it > the publisher's profit margin you think out of line? > > > Money still has to change hands at some point. And I see there are > > a > > > lot of organizations putting membership and other dollars into > > > E-LIS. > > > > I am not aware of that. As far as I understand, CILEA maintains > > the > > server. The editors work as volunteers. > > Then CILEA is paying for the server space!!!! My point is, > someone/thing is. Nice that CILEA can afford it. > > And while E-LIS may be "freely available" now--discounting, of course, > the fact that someone/thing is paying for the internet access by which > each of us gets to the site in the first place--will it be able to do > so ad infinitum? Let's hope so. > > (Guess all of the other associations listed are just providing the > equivalent of a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Sorry if I > misunderstood.) > > It's easy to forget that big bad corporate publishers absorb a lot of > costs we take for granted when singing the praises of "free availability." > > I guess what annoyed me about the original message was the public slap > at Marcia and Mary for wasting their time, and the efforts of their > contributors--for example, and I quote, "most of us just don't need > these articles"--when they were simply wanting to generate more sales. > > SueE > > Sue Easun > ca.linkedin.com/in/sueeasun -- Michelynn McKnight, PhD, AHIP Associate Professor Schoolof Libraryand Information Science LouisianaState University 269 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 225-578-7411 /Health Science Librarians: Doing better what they've always done well./