Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 12:29:24 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends:
All economists and other social scientists might find http://www.elsss.org
very useful. Please alert your friends as well as librarians in economics
and sociology. thanks.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
ELSSS, the ELectronic Society for Social Scientists is a not-for-profit
organisation aimed at solving the ever deepening crisis in scholarly and
scientific communication created by the pricing policies of some commercial
publishers that have forced libraries in the developed world to cut their
journal portfolios and to slash their book collection and that have priced
developing and transition economies out of the knowledge loop altogether.
With institutional support from the Royal Economic Society
http://www.res.org.uk, the University of St Andrews
http://www.st-and.ac.uk, the Consortium of University and Research
Libraries http://www.curl.ac.uk, and Scottish Enterprise Fife, ELSSS is
committed to:
Increase competition in the academic journal publishing marketplace
by providing direct and credible alternatives to specific high-priced
journals;
Introduce a fairer and more efficient way of producing,
distributing, and using academic journals whereby the system that currently
produces large rents being earned by some commercial publishers is replaced
by a mechanism that yields lowest-cost access and widest dissemination by
rewarding only those individuals who contribute to making high-quality
journals, namely, authors, referees, and editors - with substantial savings
for libraries and the academic and student community.
