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RE: Journals, society activities and the zero-sum game (RE: Thoughts on the House of Commons report (Chesler)

> >Rick Anderson wrote, " ... there's a potentially valid argument to be
> >made there.  But let's not pretend that mandatory OA won't hurt
> >societies."
> 
> Let's also not pretend that the excess profit-taking from scientific
> journals has not already hurt libraries and open scientific 
> communication.

Absolutely true, but irrelevant to the issue of OA's potential effect on
societies.

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Rick Anderson
rickand@unr.edu