Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard University: Drop paywalled journals, publish open access

Tangential, but highly relevant to the goal of free content: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-pu… "Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls." http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabg… "The Library has never received anything close to full reimbursement for these expenditures from overhead collected by the University on grant and research funds. 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."