I love it when faculty treat librarians like ignoramuses. For certain values of "love." I certainly appreciate a good Kevin Smith smackdown!
- RepoRat
that has been all over liblicense. i've been deleting their emails with rage for the past few days.
- jambina
glad I don't subscribe. what's the gist?
- RepoRat
it spun off the Publishers Association report that OA, even with a 6 month embargo, will decrease journal subscriptions, impacting publisher revenues, which would impact output, ultimately impacting scholarship. superspeculative report which led to folks questioning why libraries discontinue subscriptions, leading to talk about print vs e.
- jambina
Basically someone claimed that Kevin had made an 'unsupported assertion' so he...well up and supported it
- Cameron Neylon
yeah, I knew that -- I was curious about what got liblicense's knickers twisted.
- RepoRat