RE: The House of Cards

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

JE:  Precisely:  it's too soon to make any judgments.
JE: The OA promise--more and better--is being replaced with the reality.

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Hi Joe

Which of those two statements do you believe?  I can't see how one could
hold them both to be true simultaneously.

David C Prosser
SPARC Europe

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph J. Esposito
Sent: 05 August 2008 21:58
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Subject: The House of Cards

Stevan Harnad wrote:

>But the trouble is that apart from astrophysics and high energy
physics, no other field has anywhere near 100% OA: It's closer to
15% in other fields. So apart from a global correlation (between
the growth of OA and the average length of the reference list),
the effect of OA cannot be very deeply analyzed in most fields
yet.

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JE:  Precisely:  it's too soon to make any judgments.
Therefore, there is also no reason to conclude that there is an
"open access advantage."

Professor Harnad, like other OA activists, is watching as the OA house of
cards collapses.  The OA promise--more and better--is being replaced with
the reality.

Joe Esposito