Critique of STM Critique of NIH Proposal (fwd)

["Dr. James J. O'Donnell" <provost@georgetown.edu>]

The item cited below makes this point repeatedly:

	"To repeat, what is being proposed is not an alternative business
	model but that access to journal articles reporting the results of
	NIH-funded research should be supplemented with free public online
	access for all those would-be users who cannot afford paid access."

Do I interpret this correctly as meaning that *only* those who cannot
afford paid access should be given free access?  On the model of proposals
to reform U.S. health care?  That's very different from what I've been
understanding as Open Access, but interesting to explore.  There seems to
be progress in that direction:

	http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown U.

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:13:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Subject: Critique of STM Critique of NIH Proposal

Full text of critique is at:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/nih.rtf Excerpts: