so zumindest ein Artikel im Guardian:
Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers‘ prices
University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. …
A memo from Harvard Library to the university’s 2,100 teaching and research staff called for action after warning it could no longer afford the price hikes imposed by many large journal publishers, which bill the library around $3.5m a year.
The extraordinary move thrusts one of the world’s wealthiest and most prestigious institutions into the centre of an increasingly fraught debate over access to the results of academic research, much of which is funded by the taxpayer. …
Robert Darnton, director of Harvard Library told the Guardian: „I hope that other universities will take similar action. We all face the same paradox. We faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all of it for free … and then we buy back the results of our labour at outrageous prices. …
Siehe dazu http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices
Das Memo: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448