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Re: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

Dear David

As we have discussed in another arena, I am sure that you have, when you worked at OUP and Elsevier, made the point that your journals did not have colour charges probably and certainly not page charges. If you did not use this point in promotion you were missing a trick - which is not like you. As you know very few commercial journals have page charges.

Anthony

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From: "David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: RE: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

Except to the degree that it raises barriers to publication for authors -- which, of course, it does.
Except, of course, where there are no author fees (in the case of over half of the journals listed in the DOAJ), or where the authors fees can be waived (BMC, PLoS, etc.).

(Incidentally, I always find it intriguing that open access publication fees are described as barriers to publication, but we rarely hear the same being said of page charges, colour figure charges, etc. for publication-based journals.)

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
E-mail: david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Anderson
Sent: 27 June 2007 05:10
To: Velterop, Jan, Springer UK; liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Correction (RE: Thatcher vs. Harnad)

Gold OA (OA publishing) doesn't lower anyone's productivity, and certainly not in this way.
Except to the degree that it raises barriers to publication for authors -- which, of course, it does. (Granted, it also lowers barriers to access for readers, though it also imposes significant costs elsewhere which I think have been fairly thoroughly discussed here.)

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickand@unr.edu