On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Rick Anderson <rick.ander...@utah.edu>wrote:
> May I suggest, though, that such postings should not go to the GOAL, > BOAI or SPARC lists? Please keep such brilliant ideas to the library lists. > > And please don't reply that "it's just one factor in our cancelation > equation." There's no need for the OA community to hear about librarians' > struggles with their serials budgets when it's at the expense of OA. > > Censorship? I'm not the moderator of this list. I am just expressing my view, as you are. But if you must keep posting here, could you perhaps address the points of substance? SH > > It's hard to know how to respond to this. I guess I'll say simply that > I'm dumbfounded at this blatant attempt to stifle any discussion of OA in > anything other than cheerleading mode. If we can't talk about all the > downstream implications (whether positive, negative, or mixed) of the > various publishing models and options that are on the table, then it's hard > to see how we're going to come up with sustainable, fair, and > widely-beneficial solutions. > > All of us have a stake in this conversation. I trust the moderators of > these listservs will resist Stevan's call to silence those stakeholders who > fail to support unreservedly and uncriticially the one model that he > favors. A policy of prior restraint doesn't strike me as terribly > consistent with the goals of OA. > > --- > Rick Anderson > Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections > Marriott Library, University of Utah > Desk: (801) 587-9989 > Cell: (801) 721-1687 > rick.ander...@utah.edu >
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