Comments on: Walking away from the American Chemical Society

By: Arizona Meets Australia | SLA Arizona Chapter

Arizona Meets Australia | SLA Arizona Chapter — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:24:05 +0000

[...] but big audacious grand ones. We need heroes in libraryland – she’s one of them, given the ACS thing (which she did talk about). We need change. We need more activism! She had a rousing call to action [...]

By: ACRLog » ACS Solutions: The Sturm und Drang

ACRLog » ACS Solutions: The Sturm und Drang — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:50:48 +0000

[...] Society journals, the serials crisis of unsustainably high prices, and one brave librarian, Jenica Rogers at SUNY Potsdam, who said “Enough!” The atmospheric conditions that caused this storm: high journal [...]

By: Beth Jacoby

Beth Jacoby — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:23:12 +0000

SUNY Potsdam’s decision to walk away from the high-priced ACS all-pubs ejournal package inspired us to take action after years of complaining about the high prices. While we didn’t walk away completely from ACS, we did switch to the much smaller (and newer) Education Core Plus package for 2013. Our chemistry faculty weren’t happy, but they understood that the high ACS prices are not sustainable in a flat budgetary environment. I encourage ACS to continue developing more affordable and flexible ejournal options for campuses like ours that have a small, undergraduate chemistry program.

By: Journal publishers’ prices are too high, even for the University of Harvard | Open Science

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:44:37 +0000

[...] with publishers’ fees, what about the smaller players? For example, a college in New York – SUNY Potsdam, recently decided to cancel subscriptions to journals published by the American Chemical Society. [...]

By: Dethroning the Calvinist library | Gavia Libraria

Dethroning the Calvinist library | Gavia Libraria — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:50:26 +0000

[...] libraries have not embraced open access, despite toll-access’s manifest injustices and steadily vanishing feasibility. If they no longer dispense salvation because salvation has evaporated into the Internet, what are [...]

By: Aaron Swartz, being brave and taking risks | Corin the Librarian

Aaron Swartz, being brave and taking risks | Corin the Librarian — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:23:53 +0000

[...] am put in mind of a conversation I had with Jenica Rogers where she talked about calling out the American Chemical Society and their charging and what that was like. She commented to me, “I was not brave, I was [...]

By: Year End, 2012 « Agnostic, Maybe

Year End, 2012 « Agnostic, Maybe — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:21:24 +0000

[...] school districts? Indeed. Database pricing and access (along with vendor practices) as seen as in Jenica Rogers vs. the ACS? Yeah. Combined with a reheated ongoing relevancy (non-)crisis, I think next year will look a lot [...]

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By: ACS’s Open Letter to the Library Community | Librarian Squared

ACS’s Open Letter to the Library Community | Librarian Squared — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:36:53 +0000

[...] about how they value their relationship and dialogue with libraries. This ad appeared after their rejection by SUNY Potsdam but before the announcement of the upcoming break with the the Canadian Research Knowledge Network [...]

By: ACS Strikes Out (Again!) | Librarian Squared

ACS Strikes Out (Again!) | Librarian Squared — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:12:44 +0000

[...] a follow-up to the SUNY Potsdam story on how they just said “no” to the American Chemical Society (ACS) and their [...]