Nature recently announced
(http://www.nature.com/press_releases/NPG_opens_archives.pdf) a sort of
modified open access to its archival content.  However, there's a catch:
they're now asking us to sign a new version of the license agreement for
our 2007 renewals, in order (as my new sales rep put it) "to guarantee
that you have access if you need to cancel."

Most of the new license language is okay, but they now apparently want
confidentiality for pricing and license terms.  If we agree, that could
spell the end of public discussion of Nature's pricing practices.  It
seems to me that we'd better all decide that we're not going to agree.

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickand@unr.edu