michaeleisen.org - Michael Eisen When Harvard University says it can not afford something, people notice. So it was last month when a faculty committee examining the future of the university’s libraries declared that the continued growth of journal subscription fees was unsustainable, even for them. The accompanying calls for faculty action are being hailed as a major challenge to the traditional publishers of scholarly journals. Would that it were so. Rather than being a watershed event in the movement to reform scholarly pub... show all text posted by friends: (8) @phylogenomics: 20 years of cowardice: pathetic response of US universities to crisis in scholarly publishing - http://t.co/n2dSGMHp (v @mrgunn @shiplives) 01.05.2012 21.40.50 @glynmoody: 20 years of cowardice: pathetic response of US universities to crisis in scholarly publishing - http://t.co/n2dSGMHp (v @mrgunn @shiplives) 01.05.2012 21.40.28 @Stephen_Curry: .@mbeisen gets tough on universities for failing to grasp...