Re: Pricing of Journals

From: Dan L Burk <BURKDANL[_at_]shu.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:14:01 -0500

On 01/23/99, Roger Wilcox Cloud <rcloud[_at_]surfnetusa.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, C.E. Petit, Esq. <cepetit[_at_]usa.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Albert Henderson <noblestation[_at_]compuserve.com> opined:
> > >
> > > Your Ford analysis is inappropriate. Undergraduate students, who
> > > dominate higher education populations do very well without the
> > > huge collections found at research universities. On the other
> > > hand, postgraduate research is likely to fail if its relatively
> > > few researchers lack information.
> >
> > Mr. Henderson, you've just revealed your complete lack of knowledge
> > about how research is actually performed at research universities.

[snippage]

> To purport that one other has "revealed" one other's "complete lack of
> knowledge" as to a given subject is arrogant.

It might be arrogant. But it might also be true.

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Dan L. Burk
Seton Hall University
burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu

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Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 19:39:37 GMT