RE: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

>Except to the degree that it raises barriers to publication for 
>authors -- which, of course, it does.

Except, of course, where there are no author fees (in the case of 
over half of the journals listed in the DOAJ), or where the 
authors fees can be waived (BMC, PLoS, etc.).

(Incidentally, I always find it intriguing that open access 
publication fees are described as barriers to publication, but we 
rarely hear the same being said of page charges, colour figure 
charges, etc. for publication-based journals.)

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Anderson
Sent: 27 June 2007 05:10
To: Velterop, Jan, Springer UK; liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

> Gold OA (OA publishing) doesn't lower anyone's productivity, 
> and certainly not in this way.

Except to the degree that it raises barriers to publication for 
authors -- which, of course, it does.  (Granted, it also lowers 
barriers to access for readers, though it also imposes 
significant costs elsewhere which I think have been fairly 
thoroughly discussed here.)

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickand@unr.edu