I may be getting simple in my old age, but I believe that free resources are free resources.

If you'd select or retain a free print resource, why is a web one any different?  We're all offered all sorts of free magazines/journals/treasures/junk all the time.  The same range of quality, utility, and relevance to our collections exist on the web as in print.

If you'd put it on the shelves and catalog it in print, you should in electronic format.  If not, don't.

dan

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you;
  it's what you leave behind you when you go.

dan@riverofdata.com
Dan Lester, Boise, Idaho, USA

  ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
  From: "Andrea Serra" <anserra@VASSAR.EDU>
  To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
  Received: 6/19/2007 7:58:21 AM
  Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Open access policies

  >We are in the process of making a decision on this as well, so I
  >would be interested to hear what others are doing. Would you be able
  >to post a summary of responses on the list?