Re: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

(1) Yes, there is an information glut.

(2) No, subscription tolls are not the rational way to filter it.

(3) Peer review is.

(4) Then the user can exercise choice, guided by the quality-control
tags of peer review (the journal-name and track-record).

(5) And open commentary can serve as a further, back-up filter.

(6) Most of the attempted of defences of toll-barriers continue 
to be (often entirely unconsciously) papyrocentric, failing, 
deeply, to assimilate the nature and potential of the online 
medium for give-away research, written purely for impact, not for 
income.

Stevan Harnad