> > * Divert scarce dollars from research.  Publishers now pay the
> > cost of publication out of subscription revenue; if the authors
> > have to pay, the funds will come from their research grants.
>
> No. Publication costs are currently being paid out of
> subscription revenues. On the hypothesis that institutions cancel
> those subscriptions, it is those same subscription revenue savings
> that can continue to pay for (what is left of) publication costs,
> per paper published. Not a penny of research grants need ever
> be redirected.

So Stevan, just to clarify -- you're suggesting that instead of an
author-funded OA publication model (which, in reality, is a grant-funded
publication model), we should have an author-funded OA model that is, in
reality, a library-funded OA model.  A library that once paid, say,
$5,000/year for a subscription to the Journal of X, would instead
redirect that money to cover the charges levied by OA publishers on
authors.  Correct?

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 682-5664
rickand@unr.edu