At 02:13 PM 1/3/2004 +0000, Jan Velterop wrote:
>Peter,
>
>You're absolutely correct in your observation that our differences are
>minute, in the scheme of things. Nonetheless, I think I disagree with you
>that we have Open Access if just the price barrier is lifted.
Jan,
You have this part of my position reversed. On this point I was
agreeing with you that open access goes beyond lifting price barriers to
lifting permission barriers. For a fuller exposition of why I think
removing both kinds of access barrier is important, see
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm
Best,
Peter
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Peter Suber
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Editor, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
peter.su...@earlham.edu
