Re: The House of Cards

["Jan Szczepanski" <Jan.Szczepanski@ub.gu.se>]

I really share Joe Espositos view about the green future. It's a 
bleak one. But he forgets the golden road. Thousands of new free 
e-journals every year. 100% OA Commercial journals are out. More 
than 50% of new e-journals are free journals. It's really old 
fashioned with a price tag connected to important reading.

Jan


> 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.
>
> ****
>
> 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