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Re: Exchange in the Financial Times

At 18:57 26/11/04 -0500, you wrote:

Many readers of this list will already have seen this exchange on Open
Access in the Financial Times:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1ea23b3e-3f15-11d9-8e70-00000e2511c8.html

It is Tweedledum versus Tweedledee, and the winner is dum-dee-dum!

Note the implication in the headline of the article and the texts of the
pieces that the ONLY form of innovation in electronic publishing concerns
Open Access.  OA is a very small part of what is going on in electronic
publishing today and is largely irrelevant to the investments currently
being made that will define the future shape of scholarly communications.

Joe, You might want to elaborate on this point, because I'm looking at it
from an academic's perspective, as one who follows developments in
electronic publishing, and Open Access is THE biggest factor currently. It
has a profound effect on everything. As I see it, anyone who is making
business decisions in this area and isn't taking OA into account, or is
minimising the effect of OA, is making the wrong decisions. Here I'm
including everyone in the academic publishing chain, from authors on.

Steve Hitchcock
IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ,  UK
Email: sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)23 8059 3256     Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865