Re: OA needs its own list

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

Dare I suggest that (thank goodness) author-side funded Open Access
Publishing has become just one business model that many publishers
(conventional and otherwise) are finding worth testing - and not a
religion!

It seems to me that attention is moving to institutional and other
archives, and the extent to which they can co-exist 'parasitically' with
publishers' journals without destroying the host.  Music to Harnad's ears,
perhaps!

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: OA needs its own list

> I sympathise with what Will writes. I work part-time as a real publisher
> and for me OA considerations do not loom large in my day to day
> activities in that role. Just occasionally an academic now mentions OA
> but in the hope that the whole thing will go away - honestly!  I of
> course exaggerate, but not much.
>
> However the great advantage of any discussion on this list is that it is
> broad church. The lists Peter Suber mentions are I think all in this
> category though representing different schools of OA advocates. This
> list is moderated in a neutral and humane way so that we are spared
> repeated advocacy from some of those who go in for repeated advocacy.
> Discussion on the lists that Bernie mentions are discussions about how
> OA can be achieved, which is different from discussion about OA.
>
> Please Will let us continue to use and learn from this wonderful forum.
>
> Anthony