{"id":4368,"date":"2012-04-24T21:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2012-04-24T21:04:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:04:18","slug":"faculty-advisory-council-memorandum-on-journal-pricing-%c2%a7-the-harvard-library-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing \u00a7 THE HARVARD LIBRARY TRANSITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Slashdot a story about how the Faculty Advisory Council to the Library (of Harvard) sent around a <a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k77982&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448\">Memorandum on Journal Pricing<\/a> arguing that periodical subscriptions are not sustainable and that faculty should therefore publishing in open-access journals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Faculty Advisory Council to the Library, representing university faculty in all schools and in consultation with the Harvard Library leadership, reached this conclusion: major periodical subscriptions, especially to electronic journals published by historically key providers, cannot be sustained: continuing these subscriptions on their current footing is financially untenable. Doing so would seriously erode collection efforts in many other areas, already compromised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Slashdot a story about how the Faculty Advisory Council to the Library (of Harvard) sent around a Memorandum on Journal Pricing arguing that periodical subscriptions are not sustainable and that faculty should therefore publishing in open-access journals. The Faculty Advisory Council to the Library, representing university faculty in all schools and in consultation with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing \u00a7 THE HARVARD LIBRARY TRANSITION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-online-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4369,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}